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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:
> Hello all,
> in some time (let's say a couple of months, maybe more) Debian will
> enter the "freeze" period, where no new upstream releases are
> accepted, in order to prepare the best stable release we can :)
>
> In the past months I see many changes are accumulated in the SVN but
> no new release are done. I don't know if you've already discussed
> about releasing mpl, but it would be nice if we can have something
> before the freeze, so to have a quite-update mpl in squeeze.
>
> >From my POV, I'll provide all the support needed, so if there
> something I can do just tell me :)
Hey Sandro,
thanks for the head's up. We would like to get a 1.0 release out and
there are two roadbumps we have to navigate first. We'd like to
transition our VCS to git, and this impacts our release schedule
because of the "get_sample_data" support in the trunk which currently
pulls the data from svn but would have to be refactored to pull from
hit and we'd like to make the transition before we do a release.
Andrew, who is handling the git transition, has been very tied up of
late, but thinks he'll have some time in early May. The other issue
is my dead OSX build box -- I have access to a 64bit python 2.6
platform for builds for OSX, but currently no other platforms/versions
so I have to sink some time into this for a release, though this is
not a show stopper as we could do a release with incomplete binary
support for OSX.
So keep our feet to the fire and make sure we don't fall too far
behind so we can get something out before the freeze, hopefully far
enough before the freeze that we can get at least one bugfix release
out...
JDH