New 1.14 RC date?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ian Clatworthy writes:
 > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > 
 > > A one-month release cycle is extremely ambitious.  The Bazaar team has
 > > done an excellent job of keeping to that schedule so far, but it's
 > > only been a half-dozen or so, right?
 > 
 > No. I've been working on Bazaar for 2 years now and the monthly cycle
 > has been in place for all of that time IIRC.

You're right, my bad.  Easy reference:
http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.1.13/en/release-notes/NEWS.htm1.

BTW, you might want to shorten that up-front list to the current cycle
(including rcs a point release) plus the two previous releases and
their point releases, plus a link to a full list.  Currently in my
browser the current release doesn't show up until the third page.

 > 1.6 was the major exception and we've delayed a week now and then
 > when we felt it was the right thing to do.

And at least since 1.0, caught up on the next release with a 3-week
cycle, every single time (again with the exception of 1.7 following
1.6).  Impressive.  Very!

 > My email triggering this debate was for two reasons:

Hm.  I don't recall having the impression at the time.  But that's
probably colored by the later debate.  Still, you *may* wish to check
if you could do a better job of laying out all the background in words
of one syllable to take the wind out of my sails before I leave
port. ;-)

I stand by everything I wrote ... except for the claim that it applies
to the Bazaar process.<wink>  I apologize for posting without checking
the history more carefully.

 > FWIW, the requested delay also was for two reasons, though the
 > second reason - justification enough alone for delaying the RC
 > till Monday IMO - seems to have been forgotten in this debate:
 > 
 > 1. To land the NG development format in a controlled, fully
 >    reviewed way.
 > 2. To give the community time to find any EOL bugs prior to the RC.

Both of those reasons strike me as reasons to do the opposite: release
*earlier* with what you've got, and bring in the new stuff immediately
post-release.  Obviously you feel differently about it, though.