On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:41 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> wrote: > On 07/19/2011 10:15 AM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> Since there seems to be consensus regarding not releasing 1.7.0-beta1, >> I'll clean out STATUS and go roll beta2 this afternoon with the hopes >> of releasing it by the end of the week. >> >> I'm half-tempted to call it rc1 and start the soak. Thoughts? > > I don't follow the arguments for not releasing beta1, but I'm late to the > party and accept the consequences thereof. Still, you can't call it an RC > if it's not release-ready. > > I know that there are some changes that we allow between an RC and final > release without restarting the soak (updating CHANGES, for example). But > there are still several yellow in-progress items in roadmap.html. Most of > them I could probably assign a committer's name to as the person who seemed > to be carrying the banner for that task. Is anyone able/willing to review > and update the status of those items so we can enter RC1 with a sense of > release-readiness? What about ra_serf's "default-ness" -- is it in the > appropriate state based on that library's readiness at this moment?
After some discussion on IRC, Greg and others suggested I post tarballs on Thursday afternoon, to allow folks time to kick off their tests over the weekend and an early-week release next week. I'm inclined to go with that plan, barring any objections. And I citing Mike's concerns about about RC-ness, I'm inclined to make this one beta2. -Hyrum
