22.0 Release Status: Important news

Ben's back from Brazil. He proceeded to catch the flu as soon as he got back (for this he lives in Arizona!?), and hasn't accomplished much since. However, his neuro-muscular issues seem to continue under control, and perhaps to improve. He expects to be able to work with pretty good efficiency. His plan at present is to have a version of his Mule on Windows work that builds and maybe runs on a branch in CVS by February 1. Code complete on March 1. This will miss the release target by a mile. So I'm going to hope for miracles, but am expecting to have to scratch the Mule/NT stuff from the release. Ben agrees with this assessment, and also opposes delaying the release. I propose we start looking for a Release Manager for 22.2, with tentative target date September 1, immediately. This was always my plan, but Ben insists that he will complete this project by mid 2d quarter. That means that we'll have o a well-tested major feature, plus (I hope) o various smaller projects, and o work building on the widgets, GTK, and custom themes for release late 3rd quarter. (Aside to Jan V: I haven't yet updated the release status page concerning themes.) Vin, Martin: When should we open the 21.5 development branch? (My proposal is to rename it to 22.1 when we're sure that the current release will be 22.0.) I have that tentatively scheduled for next week. Is that too soon? Do we know how to move the head of trunk to that branch? When should we do that? Note: this is separate from the Ben and Bill branchs for Mule/NT and GTK respectively. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."