DRAFT 2.0.0 ANNOUNCEMENT (was Re: bzr 2.0.0 final code frozen!)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Martin Pool writes:
 > 2009/9/26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
 > > John Arbash Meinel writes:
 > >
 > >  > This landed as revno 4660 on the 2.0 series branch, which I don't
 > >  > believe is in the 2.0 release, but should be in the 2.0.1 release.
 > >
 > > You *are* kidding, right?  What is the point of having a three-place
 > > version if features like keyword expansion can be added between micro
 > > versions?
 > 
 > It's not the feature of keyword expansion that's landing (aiui), it's
 > a bug fix that make it work better.

AIUI from the thread I'm responding to, the earlier implementation of
this feature which was never released has been abandoned, and this is
a different implementation, not a "bug fix".

 > [In micro releases, we want] to evaluate things through the eyes of
 > a user who really dislikes surprises or disruptions.

I think you vastly underestimate just how picky such users can be.
You're running a substantial risk with little gain that I can see.

Specifically, IIRC, 2.1 is targeted for late October.  Given that
schedule, I really don't see a loss to users in saying "sorry, we
promised this for 2.0, but you'll have to wait a couple weeks and
accept any additional features we've added to 2.1", and a definite
gain in reduced maintenance effort because fewer patches need to be
created/ported and tested in 2.0.x.