Countdown to 1.5

I have had a chat with some of the other devs on the project and we are going to try and get the 1.5 release out sometime soon.

This means we will no longer accept patches for enhancements or new functionality, although we will still accept patches for bug fixes! For the next month we will be focusing on resolving issues within the 1.5 release.

At the moment I am reviewing the issues list within JIRA to see which issues can be resolved. I’ve gone right back to the beginning to see if there are any issues that have been resolved with prior fixes, so it is slow going. Hopefully in the next week or so I will be up to the more recent issues, which I will then try to resolve.

So, if you find any problems or issues with CruiseControl.NET, please log them in JIRA (http://jira.public.thoughtworks.org/browse/CCNET). Do not use the comments within Confluence, as will not be looking at them for a while (actually, do not use comments in Confluence for logging issues, other than issues with the documentation!) The Google Groups can be used for discussing potential issues, but given the volume of e-mails I get it is easy to lose e-mails, so JIRA is the best place to log them for resolution.

So, what is our timeline? Basically we are planning to do an RC1 release this month. If there are no major issues within the next couple of months, we will do the “official” release, otherwise we’ll do another RC release and wait for a couple more months.

So, not long to go now

Note: After the 1.5 release we are looking at doing a 1.6 release. This will mainly be a tidy up release, plus any enhancements or new functionality that has been deferred. The changes to use streams instead of strings will not be until a 2.0 release, as they are pretty major! Hopefully we will be able to get 1.6 out pretty quickly this year and then focus on the major refactorings for 2.0