New 1.14 RC date?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl> writes:
> 
>> What's the problem with having a -development format available in a
>> release?

> As a Bazaar newbie, I encountered strange problems with repository
> formats. At that point, I knew nothing about the fact that there even
> were multiple formats in existence, let alone the benefits of working
> with each.
> 
> An off-hand remark from one of the Bazaar developers led to me using a
> not-ready-for-release format that was, nevertheless, in the released
> Bazaar I was using. I was in need of solutions to try, and was
> confident that any code in the release was only there because it had
> already survived the testing of those who wanted to test development
> versions.
> 
> That confidence was betrayed, and I'm still enduring the fallout from
> incompatible repository formats. I'm firmly of the opinion that the
> divide between release and development is there to stop *exactly* this
> kind of leakage: I was not at all willing to be a guinea pig for
> development code, and was using the released version precisely so that
> I didn't have to be aware of what bits of it should not be used.
Can you please be a bit more specific as to what this format was and
what bit you ?

The development formats are clearly marked as such, and they're hard to
find if you're not looking for them. The places where you do come across
them explicitly mention that they're development formats and why you
shouldn't use them.

Cheers,

Jelmer