[ANN] bzr 2.3b1 released ! (bzr-beta-ppa updated; some plugins uninstallable)

[John Arbash Meinel]

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> And indeed, as mentioned on IRC, we haven't bump the bzrlib
> api_minimum_version so far.
> 
> Feedback from all involved here please ?
> 
> Do you have plans to bump it ? 

I generally plan to bump it on every major version. We chose not to do
it as soon as 2.3 was opened because we wanted to ease plugins into it.
I would like to see us bump it for 2.3b2.

*Not* bumping it is a strong statement about what kind of compatibility
we have to preserve internally. I'd rather just bump it, and not worry
about it. Since that is the whole point of the stable vs development
branches. (Stable branches never bump apis, dev can do so as we feel
necessary.)

Yes, it is a bit gratuitous, but I think it helps set expectations. In
the 2.2 cycle, we asked for API freeze on 2.2b4 specifically so that
plugins could make sure they were all up-to-date before the 2.2.0
release. I think that worked ok, and the more regularly we do that, the
smoother the process will become.

John
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