2.1.90 (Beta 1) uploaded

Hello ladies and gentlemen, this is your release captain speaking. With
gorgeous weather we're flying right on schedule (the latest, anyway).
Still looking toward the 22nd as a 2.2.0 tag date. There's currently 46
bugs blocking 2.2.0, most of which will hopefully be fixed by then,
though a handful (ONLY a handful) won't be (and we can't hold up 2.2
forever...just 13 months)

Developers: 9 days is _not_ a lot of time. Unless your name is bugs-
owner@abisource.com, stop procrastinating and fix the bugs assigned to
you (or reassign them to someone who can fix them sooner). Make the
time or make it clear to the release engineer that you are simply unable
to fix the bug in the forseeable future. If you've looked at it and
made some discovery that isn't noted on the report, explain it on the
report. QA has reeeeally lowered the bug bar on this release, the next
9 days is the coders' end of the deal.

Users: On the bright side, do realize that it's just 5 bugs a day which
is spread over 9 assigned developers. If people fix the 2.2 bugs
assigned to them, it'll be a gorgeous release (aside from the
regressions).

tag: release-2-1-90
md5s:
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Regards
-MG
Received on Wed Oct 13 09:08:32 2004