goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:

>Hi Doug and all!
>
>As you might have seen I am slowly working my way through Adam's
>cleanup.sar.
>I have no idea how long it will take.
>
>I have submitted the first .cs intended for the update stream -
>SoundSystemCleanup-gk, and I will call all these BlaBlaCleanup-gk. That
>one covers the first (alphabetically) 2 changesets inside Cleanup.sar
>and they have been extensively refined :) including fixing bitrot and
>adding class comments etc.
>
>Of course, it needs testing!!! :) - I haven't even tried filing it into
>a clean 3.7alpha yet.
>
>Anyway, I am a little curious about alpha->beta etc. since Cleanup.sar
>contains reorganisations and refactorings that typically aren't beta
>stuff, but rather alpha.
>  
>

Right, these sorts of cleanups (splitting off packages) should happen 
during alpha, not beta.

The beta release date has gotten pushed back a couple of times as we try 
to get near the end of our "to-do" list for 3.7.  Currently, since 
there's not a huge amount left to do, I'd say we should shoot for a week 
from this Friday to move to beta, which would be March 5th.

We could try to get in as many of Adam's cleanups as possible before 
then, but it's probably not critical if we don't get them all in...?

Then, once we move to beta, we'll remain in beta for 6 weeks of just bug 
fixes so things can stabilize.  (At the end of that time, 3.8alpha would 
be opened.  Or possibly it could be opened in the middle of that time.  
But we do want to have at least some period of only 3.7beta being 
available to enforce testing.  And there's also the perennial issue of 
whether the next release will be called 3.8 or 4.0...)

- Doug