countdown to bzr 2.1

[Martin Pool]

2010/1/11 Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>:
> We now have about ten days til the scheduled release of bzr 2.1.0rc1
> <https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/2.1>, which is the feature freeze date
> for 2.1.0final a couple of weeks later.
>
> This is shaping up to be a good stable release with many improvements,
> particularly to memory usage, documentation and performance.  The
> plugins, especially bzr explorer/qbzr, foreign branches, bzr-trac, and
> loggerhead have also come along in leaps and bounds.
>
> Since the stable release process went well with 2.0 we intend to do
> the same thing for 2.1: it'll get bugfix updates, but nothing
> disruptive, for at least six months.  I think we should keep
> supporting 2.0, and merging bugs to there first, though we might
> reduce the frequency of updates.

Actually, perhaps we can reach a bit higher, and promise that 2.1 will
be supported for at least a year after its release.  That might be a
more reasonable number for teams that want to keep everyone on the
same version for a while.

It may be more, but we can reconsider as we go along.

2.1 is going into Ubuntu Lucid, which is a long-term support release
supported on the server for 5 years.  I think in principle we can also
support bzr 2.1 for that long, though perhaps in later years only for
the most critical bugs.

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