On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:21 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>wrote:
> Hello, all. > > Echoing in the back of my head are promises we devs have made to avoid long > release cycles, and 1.7.0 recently turned 10 months old. There are a few > ongoing bits of feature work happening on branches or in various states of > completion on the trunk, and I'd really like to avoid 1.8.0 remaining a > moving target for much longer. > > Also echoing in my head are recent conversations with some pretty large > Subversion-using corporate community members who are starting to sense that > it's about time for another Subversion release, but have no idea what such > a > release might contain or when it will ship. It's the common complaint > about > our poor management of outward-bound communication -- a stale roadmap.html > page, no real user-targeting blog or similar info stream, etc. > > It's time to make a dedicated push, not so much to release 1.8.0 -- that > would be premature, I sense -- but to at least better define it. > > After I send this mail, I'll take a shot at doing some updates to the > Release Status portion of roadmap.html. But in the meantime, allow me to > start the ball rolling with some sound-offs on outstanding > works-in-progress, hopefully so we as a community can ultimately come to an > agreement about which bodies of effort should be aimed at 1.8.0, and which > should be deferred. > > ======================================================================= > > <snip> > Those are the things that come to mind immediately. What else? > Only a small thing that I would like to add some time during the next 3 weeks: Revprop caching should also be available in situations when you can't use the shared memory code. -- Stefan^2. -- * Join us this October at Subversion Live 2012<http://www.wandisco.com/svn-live-2012> for two days of best practice SVN training, networking, live demos, committer meet and greet, and more! Space is limited, so get signed up today<http://www.wandisco.com/svn-live-2012> ! *
