[wx-dev] IMPORTANT: 2.8 plans

[Kevin Hock]

Hi Stefan,

Maybe I'm the only person here who doesn't know the term, but what is a 
"pick-up" date?

Thanks,

Kevin

Stefan Csomor wrote:
> Hi 
>    
>> Yes, we probably do need to take a 2.8.0 branch soon in order 
>> to insulate against nontrivial changes. However I don't know 
>> whether this will conflict with e.g. Stefan C's working 
>> practises, and wxMac is critical to get right for 2.8.0.
>>
>> I suspect 2.7.3 will just encourage more unstable changes... 
>> however another approach might be to delay 2.7.2 for a couple 
>> of days, try to get everyone's API changes in there, allow 1 
>> further day for it to settle down, and then branch 2.8.0 with 
>> a release candidate on 14th or thereabouts.
> 
> the pick-up date for Apple will be about Nov 13th, so that should be a
> 2.8 RC, counting back I'd welcome 10 days for bug fixing, so for me
> Friday 3rd would be the latest day for spinning a 2.7.X, otherwise I
> don't think I can have the quality we'd need
>