On 2 January 2013 20:47, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am now officially back from my holiday vacation away from TDE.

Hope you enjoyed your holidays!

> I would like to get R14.0.0 squared away and out the door in the next few
> months if possible; thoughts on the current status of the nightly builds
> are welcome.  I know quite a few bugs remain, however many critical bugs
> have been repaired and I don't want to hold those fixes (which cannot be
> ported to the 3.5.13.x series) back much longer.

Looks like we have 38 total critical and blocker bugs to resolve.

> How does a tentative release date of April 15, 2013 sound?  This means
> that the remaining blocker bugs need to be resolved by February 2013 in
> order to get the R14 release candidate into the hands of our QA team with
> sufficient time for them to find and resolve quality problems before
> release.  A tentative final source release date would be March 15; this
> would allow 2 weeks for the binary build maintainers to update their
> packages before release, and a week or two for the mirrors to sync with
> the new packages.

Not to mention documentation, press release, and such getting done
before the release. I think those last two weeks during the mirror
setup should be also for that.

Calvin