[darcs-users] 2.3 release schedule

[Benedikt Schmidt]

Hi,
Petr Rockai wrote:
> Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> writes:
>> What will the release schedule for 2.3 be? In particular when will the freeze
>> be? At least two weeks notice would be good!
> 
> first of all, let's clear up what is 2.3 supposed to contain and such. This is
> the summary of changes currently available in http://darcs.net repo:
> 
> And the filecache -- Benedikt, could you please give us an update and an
> estimate whether you are going to make it with the below schedule (and for what
> value of N).
> 
>      984 wish: drastically improve darcs annotate performance (Benedikt)

I'll have some time starting from the 7th of June, so getting something
ready for 15th of June would be tight but doable. Even if the cache has
to be explicitly enabled, it would be good to have in the release.

> Schedule
> --------
> 
> Anyway, here is a floating version of the last release schedule:
> 
> N: release branch is shallow-frozen; only patches fixing important issues or
>    implementing release goals will be let in
> N+3: pre1 is tagged and released (beta 1, really)
> N+15: release branch is deep-frozen, only release-critical fixes can go in
> N+18: pre2 (beta 2)
> N+25: rc1 (rc 1)
> N+30: final

Best,
   Benedikt