[Mulgara-general] Code Freeze and Release Plan For Mulgara 1.1

[Andrae Muys]

Over the past 2 months the Topaz Foundation has generously funded a  
series of bug fixes and stabilization work that has left us with only  
3 bugs in Jira rated as 'major' or 'blocker'.  Having reached this  
point the mulgara development team is keen to make a formal release  
of mulgara 1.1.

To kick off the release process I would like to announce a code  
freeze on mulgara/trunk pending release of version 1.1.0 effective  
Friday 18th May.

 From Friday the only changes to be accepted into trunk/ will be

- Legal notice/review fixes
- Documentation updates
- MGR-58 (Model Name URI/URL disambiguation)
- Some fixes isolated to the distributed-resolver (at Paul's request)

If anyone has any other bugs or fixes they feel should be included in  
this release please post to the list by Friday.  The two bugs of  
particular interest here are

- MGR-54 Blank nodes load incorrectly from N3 files
- MGR-7  Xalan missing in Java 1.5

Both currently assigned to Paul.  MGR-7 is confined to descriptors;  
MGR-54 is worrying and even if we accept it as a known bug for now,  
may require a short-iteration point release post 1.1.

My intention is to release 1.1 on the 18th of June.

The proposed release plan is:

May 18  - Code Freeze
June 3  - Final date for blocker code-fixes
June 11 - Final date for legal/documentation review - candidate  
release of 1.1
June 18 - Release of Mulgara 1.1.0

Andrae Muys

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Andrae Muys
andrae at netymon.com
Principal Mulgara Consultant
Netymon Pty Ltd