[kepler-dev] kepler release roadmap

[Matt Jones]

Hi,

We had a productive conference call yesterday and made some decisions 
about the release schedule and goals for Kepler.  I have documented 
these decisions on the roadmap:

   http://kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=KeplerReleaseRoadmap

The brief summary is that 1) we will cut an alpha8 release at the end of 
this week, and 2) we have introduced a new alpha9 release scheduled for 
Feb 28, 2006.  This is a hard deadline and will not slip; features that 
can not be completed by that deadline will not be included in the 1.0.0 
release that will be branched off of the alpha9.  We decided it should 
be a hard deadline so that we can ship the 1.0.0 release in May, which 
is beneficial for several projects.

I have reorganzied the bug lists for each of the releases.  Please 
review them and remember to update and close bugs that you own as 
appropriate (it appears to me there are several completed bugs that have 
not been closed).

Matt
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