Hi doug

I ***really*** appreciate this email. Communication is so important 
when we use emails.

Stef


On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 06:13 AM, Doug Way wrote:

>
> Hello all!
>
> As a general rule, the Guides would like to keep the community 
> informed about upcoming plans for Squeak releases.
>
> So with that in mind, here is the release plan for 3.5, which was 
> recently finalized on the SqF list:
>
> ----------
>
> The 3.5 release will be a short release for the purpose of fixing a 
> couple of serious bugs that have cropped up.  The idea is that we'd 
> like to have a clean release as a base for everyone to work from, 
> before we begin destabilizing things in 3.6 by pulling out parts of 
> the image into packages.  And to a lesser extent, 3.5 will serve as a 
> simple first-time release for the Guides, from beginning to end.
>
> The proposed release date is April 4th.  This will give us a chance to 
> get a release out quickly with these important fixes, and it will also 
> give us a little bit of time to plan the 3.6 release.
>
> The two fixes are the MetaClassBuilderFix from Andreas Raab which 
> fixes the class builder problem, and a fix for saving and loading 
> projects containing .gifs or .jpgs, posted earlier today by Ned Konz.
>
> There won't be any other fixes accepted for this quick release, unless 
> something comes up of similar severity to the project-saving bug.  
> (Minimum requirements would be:  Several people independently bring it 
> up as a problem, the bug didn't exist in 3.2, and then the guides have 
> to agree that it's worth including.)  The reason we are being strict 
> about this is because of the very short release cycle.
>
> However, this doesn't mean that the harvesting process started up at 
> http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/SQFIXES/ will come to a standstill.  Next 
> week a 3.6alpha update stream will open up, and we can start moving 
> fixes into it quickly.  3.6 will have a longer, more normal release 
> cycle.
>
> Because 3.5 is such a short release with few changes, we probably 
> won't require that new VMs be created for 3.5.
>
> Craig Latta suggested a "First Fridays" scheme for the final 3.5 
> release date, which we will try here.  (Releasing on the first Friday 
> of the month.)  That way we won't sometimes be releasing on a weekend, 
> for example, which can be a problem for some people.
>
> Dates:
> ----------
>
> Sometime tomorrow or so - Add the two fixes to the 3.5alpha update 
> stream.
>
> Monday, March 17 - Move 3.5 to beta, and create a 3.6alpha update 
> stream.  The update stream will include the usual choice to proceed to 
> 3.5beta, or to jump to 3.6alpha.
>
> Friday, March 28 - Create a 3.5gammaOne candidate image.  Also, have a 
> plan for the 3.6 release ready by this date.  The plan should include 
> a proposed list of major features, and a release date.
>
> Wednesday, April 2 - If the 3.5gammaOne image is okay, move image to 
> final. Otherwise, create gammaTwo and delay one week. (Not likely with 
> this particular release, but this will be the general rule.)
>
> Friday, April 4 - Release!  Bundles are uploaded to the ftp site, and 
> squeak.org is updated.
>
>
>
> - Doug Way
>
>
>
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