1.4 release series

[Jarrod Roberson]

where is the source hosted? I can not find where to get it from the website.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> The wiki roadmap page (http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/RoadMap) suggests
> we aim to start a new stable release series every one to two years.
> However, we're not doing a good job of implementing that - in fact we're
> just about to hit 5.5 years since 1.2.0 was released.
>
> And that's really much too long - we've built up a pile of nice new
> features which it's hard for most people to use.
>
> There are still rather a lot of tickets marked for consideration for
> this development series - currently 23 earmarked for 1.3.4, 7 for 1.3.4
> and 38 for 1.3.x (though 1.3.x is more "suitable for doing in 1.3.x"
> than "we want to do for 1.3.x").
>
> I think we need to acknowledge that these aren't going to all get done,
> and we're much better off keeping a sensible interval between new
> release series - features can then make the next series after they're
> actually implemented.  If we'd released 1.4.0 in 2012 (or even 2013), we
> could have released or be close to releasing 1.6.0 now, and half the new
> stuff currently sitting in 1.3.x could have been in general use for 2-3
> years already.
>
> I'm going to make a start soon on going through the tickets and
> adjusting milestones.  Such decisions aren't necessarily final, but
> if there's a ticket you feel is a "must get done for 1.4", then
> providing a quality patch is the realistic way to make that happen.
> Just saying "+1" isn't going to help.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
>


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