metronome mail for Bazaar 2.0 and 1.18

[Martin Pool]

2009/9/8 Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>:
> We've announced 1.18final, with all the binaries now being available
> and packages in the ppa.  1.18 is already in Karmic.
>
> There is only one more blocker for 2.0
> <https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+milestone/2.0>, to do with checking
> the contents of repository streams, whose fixes from Spiv are now in
> review <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/406687> with
> in-principle approval.
>
> I'm hoping we will get a positive review for them and land them today,
> then do rc2.  If no other critical bugs are found there, that will be
> 2.0final!

I'm happy to say spiv has now finished off and landed this patch, so
we should be at source freeze for 2.0.  There are no more 2.0-targeted
bugs.

The merges target to the 2.0 branch are here:
https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~bzr-pqm/bzr/2.0/+merges

There are some small non-blocking approved patches there we could land.

The only major open issue is Ian's patch to use sphinx for generation,
<https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~ian-clatworthy/bzr/doc-site-per-language/+merge/11410>.
 This gives much better looking html and pdf, and lets us generate CHM
files on Windows, but it adds a hard dependency on Sphinx.  I'm very
skeptical that it's appropriate to be changing dependencies at this
stage.

I'm planning to do 2.0rc2 this afternoon and to have no code changes
after that point.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>