On 3 Jan 2004, Ted Gould wrote:
3.) TIMETABLE for the next release? I know we have many many many more tasks to complete for this milestone, but now that we are after the new year, maybe we could have a target date for getting the current milestone complete. How about Sunday, February 1st?
This sounds like a reasonable time for a release, I'm not sure everything on the milestone page right now could make it within that timeframe though.
I'll go over the list and see if I can trim it down to what seems likely to be achieved within this timeframe. Getting a release out by the end of the month sounds like a good target. Lots of progress has been made over the past few weeks, so a release is quite warranted. Especially with the great work done on the Windows package.
This time through, one thing I would like to see us do differently is be a little more organized about coordinating the packaging and release notifications. Last time the notices went out prior to many of the packages being produced, but I think it's well within our capabilities to get the packages generated first, and I figure users will appreciate that. This'll require us to hold off for a few days on the announcement though, while folks create the packages. It would probably also be wise to have a few people test packages before we post them. I'd also like to adopt a naming convention for the packages so it's clearer what's different from one package to another.
Bryce