I'm losing track of time! We have the 1.5.0 release coming out on Tuesday, and I think it's going to be a doozy! A lot of work has happened since 1.4.0, much of it removing deprecated features. Since so many things have changed, I want to make sure we spend an extra large amount of testing this week to make sure that 1.5.0 is stable and good.
We're going to have a feature-freeze starting on Saturday (whenever you wake up on Saturday, it's Saturday, doesn't matter about time zones). After that point, no big commits, merging big branches, etc. There are one or two branches that I think might be mature enough to make it into trunk by that cutoff, but don't rush things! Since so many deprecated features have been removed, I want to put extra focus on HLL testing this week. Obviously Rakudo gets plenty of test coverage from it's development team (but feel free to run more tests on your system too!), but we also want to make sure all the smaller languages get good testing too. So pick a language, run some tests, and let us all know what the current status is. This is also a good opportunity to do some blogging and guerilla advertising: Talk about what you've done this month in Parrot, what the current status is of your favorite compiler/library/subsystem/toolchain/whatever, what you would like to see happen before 1.6.0, how you think things are shaping up for 2.0.0, etc. Let's build a little publicity suspense before the big release climax, and let everybody know about all the cool work we've been doing. --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
