I must agree with John here.  It is hard for me to promote 2.1.0 to
all developers without significant feature enhancements.  2.0.9 works
great for us.



-D


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Ralph Goers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I said before, I very much agree with this.
> Ralph
>
> John Casey wrote:
>>
>> Releasing the current RC work is exactly what I was proposing, and what I
>> am proposing now. The only difference was that I changed my own perspective
>> on this a little...if we're not introducing new features, there is very
>> little to distinguish this RC code from the code in 2.0.x. Further, if we
>> plan to introduce new features next, then we're really talking about having
>> 2.0.x and 2.1.0 be basically the same, no new features for 2.1.1 since
>> that's bad juju, and then, in 2.2, we finally get some new features.
>>
>> I guess I see that as a little awkward. Agreed, the work we've done
>> leading up to this RC process (and into it) has changed quite a bit of code,
>> but part of why this RC process has been so long is that we're taking great
>> care to make sure it's fully backward compatible. If we were bringing huge
>> gains in terms of fixing horrible bugs with this code, I'd say that 2.1.0 is
>> great, and any regressions found there could go in 2.1.1, etc. But the worst
>> things we're really fixing in this release is performance (it's better than
>> 2.0.9, not that 2.0.9 was that horrible) and regressions caused by the
>> release of 2.0.9.
>>
>> I'm gambling that the version 2.1.0-M1 won't be too big of a psychological
>> hit to keep people from using it; maybe that's off target. In any case, I
>> was hoping that by declaring this a M1 and immediately setting up a 2.1.0
>> release plan (hopefully before calling the vote for M1), that we could keep
>> things on track, get new features for 2.1.0, and avoid having 2.0.10, 2.1.1,
>> 2.2.0, and 3.0 all in the works at the same time. From my experience of the
>> activity levels in this project, that would be overreaching. Hell, we have
>> plugins that need work and that are pretty badly neglected right now.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> -john
>>
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