I also need to take some time and review our distro. I want to make sure we have all the third-party licenses needed, the incubator DISCLAIMER and the necessary NOTICE. And I'm not sure we can package that in a Gem, it's a bit... opaque.
Matthieu On Feb 1, 2008 12:21 PM, Alex Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An additional week or two for me means that I can, > 1) review the Eclipse task, add test cases and maybe merge BUILDR-17 > 2) review and add some Scala-related documentation > 3) test backward compatibility with a few projects currently using 1.2.x > > So I think it's worth it to improve the quality of 1.3. > > alex > > On 2/1/08, Assaf Arkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was hoping to have the 1.3 release today, but apparently that won't > > happen. Best guess we're a week/two away. > > > > Most of the new features are coupled to implementation changes, which is > > why > > we're calling this a 1.3 release. It will not be as stable as 1.2.10, > but > > I > > do want to make sure it's stable enough to be an official > > release. There's > > still a few loose ends that need to be tied. > > > > Besides code, there's also improvements to the documentation, and > covering > > the new features. And here too there are still a few unfinished tasks. > > > > Since 1.3 is the next upgrade from 1.2.10, I feel it's important to make > > sure it's backwards compatible, so I'm spending some time on testing > that. > > If you can tell me you're successfuly using 1.3 instead of 1.2.10, that > > will > > help. I also expect to close all outstanding bugs filed against 1.2.10. > > > > There's a few new features brought up on the mailing list recently. > They > > are not part of the original 1.3 plan, which was all about multi-lingual > > support and later expanded to include JRuby support. My fear is that if > > we > > keep adding features, we'll never have a 1.3 release. And keep in mind, > > once 1.3 is out we'll start working on 1.3.x. These points releases are > > easy to roll out, I don't mind making a few of those to introduce new > > features. > > > > > > What's your take? > > > > Assaf > > >
