D'oh! There's always one more item to update.... Peter Dalgaard wrote: > This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.6.0 on Wednesday > October 3, 2007. The following information is mainly for developers, > package maintainers and repository maintainers. > > The planned procedure is > > Sep 5: "Grand Feature" Freeze 2.6.0 alpha > Sep 19: Feature Freeze 2.6.0 beta > Sep 26: Code Freeze 2.6.0 RC > Oct 3: Release 2.6.0 > > GFF: No major restructuring past this point > FF: Feature set complete, only bugfixing from now on > CF: Only critical bugfixes and platform build issues > > Maintainers of recommended packages should notice that as they become > part of the final R tarball, we expect them to follow a similar freeze > pattern (and beware of potential CRAN delays, so please do not cut it > too close to the deadlines). > > Notice that the main structural discontinuities occurs at GFF: > > The SVN repository is affected as follows > The trunk version is set to "2.7.0 Under development (unstable)". > A new branch, R-2-7-branch is created. > > This also implies new version numbers for "r-devel" and > "r-release-branch", in the sense of > > http://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html > > Also, "r-release-branch" needs to have its tag updated. > > Repository maintainers may need to revise directory structures > accordingly. > > "R 2.5.1 Patched" will be closed to further development at GFF (as all > the release branches, it can be reopened if the need arises, we just > don't anticipate such a need.) > > The source alpha/beta/RC tarballs will be made available daily > (barring build troubles) by a cron job running at 4AM CET, and the > tarballs can be picked up at > > http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/ > > a little later. > > The various freeze points are marked by changes to the VERSION file > this is also done automatically by a cron job which runs just after > midnight on the relevant days. > >
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