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[Ryan Abrams <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>]

Ok.. i promised that I would email in my thoughts for the meeting this 
weekend which I unfortunately cannot attend.

Here are a few topics I was planning to address. Nick will lead the 
meeting that assembles, and work on getting this discussed.. at the 
very least, he will act as a recorder to bounce things where they need 
to be.

Ok.. so here is my checklist, along with thoughts on each item...

1) Sorcery - this is going 0.9 in the next few days. At this point, it 
will be feature frozen... the team will be focused solely on 
bughunting, as well as cleaning up the output and generally 
friendly-izing it.

2) Iso's - as soon as 0.9 is out, Adam should start on a new iso 
featuring it, as well as the frozen test grimoire as default. This iso 
should be updated regularly for testing.

3) Perforce vs. CVS - Perforce will remain in use for eric and tony to 
manage test and stable. All guru's should switch to cvs for devel work. 
If you need help in doing this, Nick will be the person to help... but 
since he is focused on sorcery until 1.0, do not pressure him on 
this... switch if you can, otherwise wait until post 1.0

4) Documentation / Website. Help Wanted.

5) Release Map - I would like to see RC1 of our 1.0 iso (as in, 
completely rebuilt, featuring a stable sorcery, a stable grimoire, etc) 
out on halloween. It will be known as pumpkin. Then we will aim for a 
series of release candidates, leading to a /real/ 1.0 in nov/dec. I 
know this means we are missing the date by quite a bit, but I would 
rather we get 1.0 right the first time, on every aspect. I want it rock 
solid.. and rushing 1.0 in the next two weeks wont accomplish that.

Those are my 5 points. they would obviously be bigger in discussion, 
but this is just the straightforward dirt on them. Feel free to debate 
all day, and we will reevaluate points, or add them, based on how the 
meeting turns out.

Again, Nick will be running the meeting, as I (unfortunately) cant make 
it.

I will be around in the early morning to answer questions (hopefully)

Thanks,

Ryan