Gnucash 1.8 freeze/release date?

[Chris Lyttle]

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 06:56, Benoit Gr=E9goire wrote:
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> eventual feature freeze and then release of GnuCash 1.8  It seems like mo=
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> Perhaps having some sort of target would help motivate each developper to=
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> The subject comes up periodically on #gnucash, but nothing ever seems to =
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Yes, it would be a nice idea to nail it down, how about this;

End of Sept - Feature Freeze
End of Oct - String Freeze, only Bugfixes
Mid-Nov - Release 1.8

We could start doing 1.7.x releases (say one every two weeks) when the
feature freeze starts in order to get feedback from testers. This would
also give documentors/translators a lot of time to do their thing. It
would also allow for some slippage and still get a release out before
the end of the year.
One thing I'd like to bring up tho, which is sorta related to this is
that I am at present 'owner' of several bugzilla categories for which I
have limited knowledge of how to fix or even tell if they are really a
bug. It'd be nicer for at least the release timeframe to have someone
who can tell looking at bugzilla to assess the bug reports.

Chris
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