[Cucumber-linux-development] Welcome to the Cucumber Linux Developers' Mailing List

[Scott C. <z5...@z5...>]

Hello All,

I know it's been a while but I'd like to officially welcome you all to
the Cucumber Linux Developers' mailing list! I just have a *couple of
mailing list pointers* I want to go over before we get started:

 1. Remember that anything posted to this list will be publicly
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So now that that's overwith, I'd like to lay out a *roadmap for the next
couple of months* of Cucumber Linux development. Here are some key
events that will be happening in the near future with approximate dates.
Note that we don't like force any releases or milestones to happen
before we're ready, so these dates are just approximate and may be
subject to some change:

  * /_Present_/
      o Cucumber Linux 1.1 is in the Alpha stage.
      o Cucumber Linux 2.0 is a vague thought somewhere that we won't
        worry about too much right now.
  * /_November 15_/
      o Cucumber 1.1 moves to the Beta stage and receives a feature
        freeze, meaning that no new packages will be accepted into the
        repository for the Cucumber 1.1 release after this date.
      o Serious debugging begins on Cucumber Linux 1.1.
      o Cucumber Linux 1.1 Beta 1 released.
  * /_November 30_/
      o PHP 7.2 will be officially released (currently we are using the
        7.2 Release Candidate). This will enable us to upgrade to PHP
        7.2 stable on Cucumber 1.1. This will be the last package we
        have to wait for a stable release for Cucumber 1.1. After this,
        all the packages which needed upgrading for Cucumber 1.1 will
        have been upgraded, putting us much closer to a stable release
        (which leads itself nicely to the next bullet):
      o Cucumber Linux 1.1 Beta 2 released.
  * /_December 16_/
      o Cucumber Linux 1.1 Release Candidate 1 released. This version
        will have the potential to become the official Cucumber Linux
        1.1 release if no critical bugs are found in it.
  * /_December 22_/
      o Cucumber Linux 1.1 Released (if no bugs are found in RC 1,
        otherwise this will be RC 2 released)
  * /_Sometime After we've Recovered from the 1.1 Release_/
      o Begin working on Cucumber Linux 2.0 (we won't worry about that
        until after the 1.1 release though).

Also, I realize that many of our developers (myself included) are
students, and Mid-December is usually when *final exams* are. I want any
developers who are also students to be able to focus on their finals,
which is why I tried to place the release candidate dates after most
finals are complete. That being said though, if things get too hectic
with final exams on and around those dates, we can push the 1.1 Release
Candidate cycle release back to either after Christmas or into January 2018.

Sorry for this long email but I'm almost done. I just want to give the
new developers *a couple of links to useful project webpages*:

 1. Our development roadmap can be found at
    https://z5t1.com/cucumber/wiki/devdocs:start. This is also where we
    keep track of who has been assigned what tasks and the progress that
    has been made on those tasks. Please email me your desired Wiki
    username so I can create an account for you.
 2. Information about security vulnerabilities can be found on our
    security tracker at
    http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/table.php and on our
    security mailing list
    (cuc...@li...). If you have not
    already joined this mailing list, I strongly suggest you do so by
    going to
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/cucumber-linux/lists/cucumber-linux-security.
 3. The official website for Cucumber Linux is
    http://www.cucumberlinux.com/ <%27>.
 4. The official SourceForge page for Cucumber Linux is
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/cucumber-linux/.
 5. The official forum for Cucumber Linux can be found at
    https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/cucumber-linux-124/.

One quick final note: in case you haven't noticed, I *make the topic for
each paragraph bold* in my emails. :)

Happy Hacking,

    - Scott