On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> wrote: > I'm still working on the CHANGES file for 1.9, it's taking longer than I > anticipated since it's been roughly 9 months since we last did a major > update > (and I forgot how long that one took me). > > The original thinking for a beta was to get something moving while we > finished > up a few things we knew we wanted in 1.9 (svn info --show-item, external > pinning). But I'm starting to think these things are close enough that > given > the time it's taking me to finish up CHANGES we may be ready for a rc1 as > soon > as those are done. >
I think we should have a beta as soon as feasible instead of waiting for a rc some time later and here is why: * Keep momentum in the 1.9 release process. * Enable / trigger people to get their 1.9.x build setup finalized * Take off some of the pressure to complete & merge the two candidate feature branches. * Don't rush the "admin" work either, e.g. API review. * Concerning the extra effort, we will release 1.7.x, 1.8.x and 1.9rc within a short window of time. Adding 1.9.0beta doesn't seem to make it much worse. -- Stefan^2.
