[squeak-dev] Re: 4.6 Release Update: Feature Freeze begins Monday, 11-May-2015

Chris Muller ma.chris.m at gmail.com
Wed May 6 23:06:49 UTC 2015


The freeze date is May 11th, not May 5th.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> In today's Squeak board meeting we expressed a definitive interest in
> wrapping up this release so we can be free of the constant patching of
> the .spur branch and associated bootstrap conversions which Eliot has
> been graciously doing.
>
> Therefore, the board asks all contributors to withhold any further
> non-essential fixes and features after Sunday, May 10th.  That's just
> four more days to finish any further feature contributions you may
> have for the 4.6 / 5.0 release.  And, even until then, no high risk
> changes should be made in trunk.
>
> Starting next week we will need volunteers for the release-process
> duties like Release-Notes, Welcome workspaces, Preferences &
> Background, Image Setup, Website updates and a at least a few
> SqueakMap entry's for Squeak's signature packages.  I'll see about
> making a new wiki page so we can organize around this.


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