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[Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT t.armory.com>]

First off, I just want to say I am extremely impressed by the effort
everyone has put in on this. People are stepping up and working together
towards a common goal, thats awesome.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:48:44PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On Jan 19, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> 
> > udev (iuso)
> >   http://bugs.sourcemage.org/13265
> >   http://bugs.sourcemage.org/13417
> 
> IRC chatter seems to think we should keep what we have for udev this cycle
> and keep testing these fixes for the next one.

I think this fix (or the init.d one) is the "long pole" in the sense that
its the most complex and requires the most testing. Theres nothing wrong
with that, fixing it takes however long it takes. However, releasing
it with to little testing may be bad. On IRC I suggested we consider
contingency plans if there are unanticipated issues with this spell.

Contingency possibilities I know of are either leaving it as it is, or
rolling the upgrade back. I dont know the technical details so Im not
in a position to evaluate this on my own. But I do think we need a plan.
Can someone closer to this give an update?

> 
> > As Andrew is moving and I'll be gone this weekend, if the above are all
> > fixed before I get back, we'll need a volunteer from one of the Leads to
> > push out a new stable-0.6 from stable-rc-0.6 and announce it. Bueller?
> 
> What is the new ETA?  This weekend?  Who is driving at this point?
> 
> I don't see slipping a bit this time as bad given how long it's been and
> how much cruft is accumulated even in the basesystem spells.  We are still
> making progress and have good momentum.

I think we should try for this weekend. Exercising contingency plans if
necessary. We've built up a good momentum and we shouldn't wait too long
before starting the next cycle.

I too am not worried about a week slippage on this release given the
number of changes and this being our first run at this. We can bring the
next releases in.

My internet access is fairly stable, and plan on getting dsl thursday.
So I can drive things to completion.

-Andrew