[IPython-dev] Release plans, yet again. And a road to 1.0, believe it or not.

[Fernando Perez]

I know, everybody laughs when I talk about releases... But for the two
of you still listening:

- 0.10.2 will be out asap, literally as soon as I find a block of a
few hours free.  I thought I'd have the rc released last week but some
family health problems have made the last week very unpleasant for me,
and I'm only now getting back on track.  I should be able to cut the
0.10.2 final on Saturday at the latest.

- 0.11: we now have no pending pull requests and just a few critical
bugs.  We do need to give some time to shake out in user testing the
massive merges of the past few days, today I discussed with Thomas
some important things that need to be done to the sqlite history code,
and I have a few local things as well, but since all the big stuff is
done, we should be looking at pushing 0.11 out the door finally in
just a few weeks.  If you have anything on your local trees that you
think is in good shape for 0.11, try to make a pull request before too
long (though we'll announce the release freeze in advance, we're not
quite there yet).

So now is the time to really start playing with master.  Install
zeromq/pyzmq 2.1.4 and take it for a spin.  Anything that breaks, let
us know by filing a bug report.  If you think we have already a bug
but not listed as critical, please let us know and we'll look into
raising its priority.  We want to focus on flushing only the critical
bugs before cutting out 0.11, so that we can start a quicker release
cycle after 0.11.

The plan will be to try and push small releases after 0.11 to the
point where we are happy with the API, and then simply start a
stabilization series like matplotlib had, 0.99.x, leading to 1.0.  I
don't want to make any promises on when 1.0 will be out, but ideally
it would be by this summer.  But we'll see, I've broken those enough
times that the joke isn't funny anymore.

Many thanks to everyone who has jumped in recently with so much great
work to get us to this state. I particularly want to thank Thomas,
whose massive clearing job initially really got us 'unstuck' from
behind a pile of accumulated pull requests and bugs, and who now has
moved into doing brain surgery right at the core, improving some of
our most delicate code in really nice ways (the recent AST
inputsplitter refactor).

Cheers,

f