At the beginning of this month we kicked around the idea of doing an interim release, because even though we're not 100% done with the goals, there's a lot of new features and the time feels right for a new release. :-)
We considered either calling it 0.39.5 and keeping with the roadmap as is, or calling it 0.40 and bumping the roadmap a bit. I believe there was a rough concensus for the latter at the time - this still true?
In any case, the two tasks facing us right now are the same:
1. Finish up current work
2. Fix bugs (esp. the more noticeable ones)
Like we've done in past releases, I'll begin posting critical bug summaries daily from now until the release so we can track our progress. How do we want to track it?
* Fix X % of the critical bugs (e.g. fix 50% of crits)?
* Reduce the bug list to a threshhold (e.g. 100?)?
* Identify N specific bugs to fix?
I browsed through the bug list yesterday, and we seem to be in fairly good shape (thanks most likely to the continuing attention the bug list receives). There are fewer crash bugs listed than we've had in the past, and most of those occur only in special situations (such as Win32-only), but some of the remaining bugs are particularly hard ones to fix.
In any case, let me know what you think we should set as the goal for this release, and I'll start posting our progress on that by the 26th.
Bryce