Re: [Tcllib-devel] (proposed) Schedule for Tcllib 1.9 (Re: any thoughts on tcllib release?)

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

We are into September now and well into the proposed schedule below.

I am now finalizing the schedule, with some small tweaks to account

  *	Frozen except for bugs from Friday Sep  8.

	I.e. in the remainder of the week (incl. Friday)
	we can still put in new stuff. Afterward any new
	stuff has to be either defered or put into a branch
	for later merging. The main branch will then be
	restricted to bugfixing work until after the release.

  *	Release Candidate ready at  Friday Sep 22.

	2 weeks after the freeze.

  *	General Announcement    at  Friday Sep 29.

	Another week of bughunting and cleanup work.

  *	Conference		Mo-Fri     Oct 9-13.

One thing I wanted to do, the small 'name server' based on comm and the changes
to comm in the last few weeks, I have decided to defer. It is not fully stable
yet IMHO and trying to get it done would be detrimental to the other release
work I have to do.

I will from now on concentrate on running the testsuites, fixing up package
versions, etc.

--
	Andreas Kupries <and...@Ac...>
	Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com
	Tel: +1 778-786-1122

> With the conference held from Oct 9-13 this works out to the following
> dates:
>
> *	Frozen except for bugs from Friday Sep  1.
> *	Release Candidate ready at  Friday Sep 29.
> *	General Announcement    at  Friday Oct  6.
> *	Conference		Mo-Fri     Oct 9-13. (*)
>
> Which means that we have from now on 2 months for general work on
> bugs, patches, new features until the work is restricted to bugs only.
>
>
>
> However, I do not know how early the release has to be to get on the
> conference CD. If the Friday before the conference is too short I
> guess that we can move GA and RC one week back, for a full week
> between GA and conference. That would work out to the following dates:
>
> *	Frozen except for bugs from Friday Sep  1.
> *	Release Candidate ready at  Friday Sep 22.
> *	General Announcement    at  Friday Sep 29.
> *	Conference		Mo-Fri     Oct 9-13. (*)