[kepler-dev] planned kepler-1.0.0alpha5 release

[Matt Jones]

Hi,

On our roadmap that we developed at the last Kepler meeting we said we 
would try for an alpha 5 release by Feb 21 (see 
http://kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=KeplerReleaseRoadmap&version=1). 
  That hasn't happened but is probably still useful.  I talked with Dan 
today, and we thought it would be good to go ahead with a release to try 
to get some of the bug fixes and improvements that we've completed now 
out there in a more accessible format.  So Dan is planning on pulling 
the CVS HEAD on Friday Feb 25 and creating the alpha5 installers then. 
If you have anything you want included in this release, please check it 
into CVS by Thursday the 24th, and please try not to check in any 
experimental code that is likely to break the trunk (use a branch instead).

A revised roadmap is here:

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

The main differences from the previous roadmap version are that: 1) the 
documentation framework isn't complete so has been moved to alpha6, and 
2) the R improvements are ongoing and so have been extended to alpha6. I 
also added links to the bug lists for each milestone.  The alpha 6 
release is slated for April 15th, 2005 (just prior to the SEEK and GEON 
meetings and the Ptolemy/Kepler miniconference), and I think we should 
try hard to make that deadline.

Cheers,
Matt

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