An Emerging Tla Roadmap
Updated: 6 Feb 2005
Next Planned Releases
These dates are not cast in stone. They are rough estimates and vague goals.
GNU Arch 2.0 postponed indefinately.
GNU Arch 1.4pre2 uncertain -- it depends entirely on what comes
down the pipeline from baz
.
GNU Arch 1.3.1 15 Mar 2005
-- This will be primarily a
maintenance/rejuvination release of GNU Arch 1.x. Experience
has shown that permitting the baz
line to serve as the de facto
mainline for GNU Arch 1.x will be highly problematic. Therefore,
some resources are being redirected from the GNU Arch 2.0 and
GNU Arch 1.4 lines of development in order to produce suitable
1.x releases.
Other Upcoming Milestones
Issue Tracking for GNU Arch 15 Mar 2005
In conjunction with
the release of GNU Arch 1.3.1, I will announce a new bug-tracking
and support infrastructure for GNU Arch releases.
Our aim will be to provide direct, person-to-person issue tracking support. In other words, resources permitting, 5 days per week, "bug czar" volunteers will read and individually reply to incoming issue reports, maintaining in the process the database of known bugs, their priorities, and the status of their fixes. (Initially, the labor and computing infrastructure for this purpose will be donated by Seyza Corp.)
Documentation Update 30 Mar 2005
Close on the heals of the
1.3.1 release, we intended to release an updated version of the
tutorial documentation, catching it back up to the GNU line, and
making it easier to maintain and keep up to date in the future.
Periodic Milestones
We plan to make GNU Arch 1.x releases not less than once per quarter.
Design Discussions and Standards Development
We intend to agressively lead focussed design discussions about critical areas of Arch design and to work to produce, as a byproduct of those, authoritative standards documents defining the Arch protocol.