bzr 1.18rc1 source frozen

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Martin Pool<mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/10 Andrew Cowie <andrew at operationaldynamics.com>:
>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 17:53 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
>>
>> The source for bzr 1.18rc1 has now been frozen. ...
>> As we discussed in the six-month-release thread, we'll hold off on the
>> public announcement to give people time to make binary packages.
>>
>> Don't you mean "1.18 is released, but we won't tell anyone until the
>> packages exist"?
>
> That's what I meant.  Did you think I should have said it differently.
>
>> (I'm sorta surprised to hear you saying it about an RC is
>> all)
>
> I'm open to suggestions, especially from Windows & other
> binary-oriented users and developers, on whether we should do this for
> rcs or not.  My thinking was: we want RC testing on Windows; if we
> don't have an installer they'll probably ignore the announcement and
> not test it; therefore we should do it for RCs too.  I agree it does
> feel a bit like a rehearsal for the rehearsal.

I think that it is a good thing that you have done this, and hope that
this is how it will continue to be done.