[squeak-dev] Squeak 6.0 | Release Planning

David O'Toole deeteeoh1138 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 17:15:47 UTC 2022


Wonderful! I will help out however I can, I've got a trunk image I've been
experimenting with in anticipation.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:56 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
wrote:

> Hi all --
>
> I suppose that many readers have noticed by now that we are currently
> preparing the next Squeak release. A few weeks ago, I volunteered for being
> the next release manager. Until now, I have been rather reluctant to make
> any concrete remarks on when the release will happen. Let me use the
> following lines to give you a brief update.
>
> The OpenSmalltalk VM looks good. We have our second release candidate and
> will hopefully make a third one soon. Our daily Trunk bundles include that
> OSVM RC2 already:
> - http://files.squeak.org/trunk/
> -
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202112201228
> -
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2022-January/037533.html
>
> The Trunk image is doing well. Maybe we can do our traditional "Feature
> Freeze" in the beginning of February. Before proposing a concrete schedule,
> I want to finish assessing a few higher-effort things including:
> - Objectland (
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2019-October/204437.html
> )
> - Localization (English, German, French, ...)
> - Jaromir's latest efforts around process scheduling
> - Eric's latest efforts around GIFReadWriter
> - Current state of ClipboardExtendedPlugin
> - Current state of IPv6
>
> Other than that, I plan for announcing the upcoming "Feature Freeze" about
> 2 weeks in advance. Then we enter our beta-testing phase, in which I will
> make our latest "60Deprecated" package opt-in instead of opt-out (using the
> preference wizard). Then, about 1-2 weeks later if all goes well, I will
> update the .sources file of our final release candidate to
> SqueakV60.sources, package the release and open the Trunk for features
> again. :-) Next Trunk version will be 6.1alpha (using 61Deprecated for new
> deprecations).
>
> Let us all work together to make Squeak 6.0 being worth its increased
> major version number:
> - Report issues
> - Fix failing tests
> - Make you favorite projects compatible
>
> Thanks! :-) Happy squeaking!
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
>
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