bzr 0.7 release candidate

[John Arbash Meinel]

Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 15:10 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
>>I'm happy to announce availability of a release candidate for bzr 0.7.
>>
>>  http://bazaar.canonical.com/DownloadBzr
>>
>>Please test this and report any issues; if there are no major problems
>>this will be the 0.7 release later this week. 
> 
> 
> I'd like announcements like these to show up on bazaar-announce. I'm
> sure a lot of packagers likes to test the rc's, if not for putting them
> in their official package repositories then at least to prepare for any
> changes (new dependencies and such) the next release will have.
> 

I don't know whether rc should be on bazaar-announce or not. I think a
lot of the people subscribed to an '-announce' just want announcements
about full-fledged releases. Especially if we move to a release every
month cycle, where we have an rc every other week, that is probably too
high of a volume for -announce.

> 
>>A couple of people have suggested that we move towards time-based
>>releases for bzr.  I propose to start making releases candidates on
>>around the first of each month.
> 
> 
> How about the (new) kernel.org style? In short: It's allowed to pretty
> much break anything in a week after a stable release, then fix stuff in
> a week (or so) and do a rc1. Another week with bugfixing and then a rc2
> after which only trivial changes are allowed before releasing.
> 
> As I see it, the problem with the 0.6 -> 0.7 jump was that things never
> got to settle down. The kernel.org style prevents such an issue.
> 
> Cheers :-)
> 

An interesting thought. I'm not sure if we have the development model
that makes it work for the kernel. The kernel has a lot more stuff going
on, and a lot more people working on it.

I think planning for a 1-month release cycle, with an acceptable amount
of slippage for a specific feature is reasonable. (say 1 week if it is
just about ready).

John
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