Hi Marcel,

Thanks for the update. Feel free to message me if it would be easier to get
on a call about the GIF stuff. I have pretty good availability these days!

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 1:45 PM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> Hi Marcel,
>
>
> thank you very much for the status update, and for being our release
> manager again! I will do my best to play my part. Some repaired tests will
> be committed soon. :-)
>
>
> Best,
>
> Christoph
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von David O'Toole <deeteeoh1138 at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 18. Januar 2022 18:15:47
> *An:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> *Betreff:* Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak 6.0 | Release Planning
>
> 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
>>
>>
>

-- 
Eric
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