bzr 1.5rc1 this Friday

[Martin Pool]

It's almost time for our next release candidate, 1.5rc1, which is
scheduled for this Friday, with 1.5final on Friday the 16th.  It's
pretty soon after 1.4 final, but a good amount of code has landed on
trunk since 1.4 branched, and we want to pull back onto a regular
schedule rather than otherwise.

One thing I did in 1.4 which I think we should make a standard
practice is adding a paragraph or two of text at the top of the NEWS
section summarizing this release.  There are many places that want a
summary of the release and writing it here seems to make sense.  In
future maybe we can send that summary through review to make sure it's
representative.

I'll be away on Friday and John has offered to manage this release (or
make the rc?)

There are two bugs marked critical

  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/205156
  "KnitRepository.insert_data_stream() copies data in improper order"

  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/206406
  "[win32] local push finished with error message: Could not acquire lock"

The second looks like it may be straightforward to diagnose and fix
from looking at the code, and then verify it on Windows.  I don't
completely understand from the bug record what is intended for the
first one.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>