[Chicken-hackers] Proposal: Release CHICKEN 5 RC1 on August 11th

[felix . winkelmann]

> Hi all,
>
> As far as I can tell, there's only one minor ticket left: #1484.
> This should be relatively easy to implement.

I can take a look at that.

>
> Given that many of the essential eggs have been ported, we should
> try to make a release soon.  Different people have wishlists about
> which eggs they'd like to have available before we make a release,
> but those are all "nice to have", and besides, there will be a
> release candidate process anyway.
>
> So, I propose that we impose a deadline on ourselves for the first
> release candidate, which I arbitrarily chose at August 11th to keep
> things going.  If there are no serious objections, I'll make the
> release candidate on that day.
>
> In the period between now and then, people can port whatever eggs
> they find most important and we can implement #1484 and perhaps
> do some more performance analysis.

Sounds great. Let's ship this mother!


felix