[ANN] 0.17 Released

[Ian Clatworthy]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>  I'm not saying we should/shouldn't haveI did have a question as to why
> we went for a full release after encountering regressions, rather than
> rc2? It is certainly the release managers decision (coupled with
> discussions with the rest of the group). I was just curious to here a
> discussion of it.

It's a very good question. I asked Robert/Martin about this on IRC and
spoke to Martin on the phone about it. The feeling was that the 2
changes were both very low risk: one being an obvious fix and the other
being a revert.

I'm very aware of the "it's just a single line change" mistake which all
of us make at some time or other, so I was OK with an RC2 if others
wanted it. In all honesty though, the risk of the changes here seemed
well below that of me playing Release Manager for the first time (and
hence stuffing something up on the packaging front).

In future, I'm happy to consult more widely before going ahead with
something like this. Perhaps we need to move key dates to a Tuesday (if
the RM is based in Oz) in order to give developers outside of Oz more
likelihood of being online and up with the latest status w.r.t. regressions?

My 2c,
Ian C.