Hey all,
As of right now there hasn't really been much headway on the renderer related bugs we have which will block 0.49 as well as no action on the security bug stopping all releases.
0.49 should be in feature freeze at this point so we can work towards releasing it (you know, being friendly to translators and all), but other than our blocker bugs, people are still happily working on other features and items that they're wanting merged in (connector cleanup, "spiro live", etc).
Does anyone have any proposals on how we should move forward given the issues holding us back? Is it time that we move to using more branches as a project? One possible route would be to branch off 0.49 and allow open work to resume on trunk. Another is to create a "staging" branch that accepted merge proposals can all land in to get further testing. Note: After this experience, if things have known regressions, I feel strongly that they should not be merged into an actual "to be released" branch until those issue are resolved.
I'm open to suggestions. Development shouldn't stagnate, but at this point things aren't looking good with a feature freeze in place and no signs of our blockers getting taken care of.
Cheers, Josh