[wp-testers] WP 2.6 in two weeks?

[Rick Beckman]

"GSoC"?

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do my eyes deceive me or am I seeing a due date of July 7th for the
> release
> > of 2.6 with a fall back for July 14? Any reason for the releasing a month
> > early? I've barely setup my test sites figuring I had a month to go yet.
> ;)
>
> There was some confusion because the roadmap had July and trac had
> August.  Given that all of the features went into 2.6 early and that
> its been running this whole time on wordpress.com and lots of our
> personal blogs, a shorter beta seems doable.  I think we can launch
> the beta cycle now, pound on it until the 7th and decide if it's
> ready.  If not,  pound it another week and decide of it's ready.  I
> merge 2.6 to wordpress.com almost daily and get tons of feedback in an
> instant.  I'm pretty confident in being able to finish off 2.6 in a
> few weeks.  We won't be adding any more features to 2.6 so there's no
> need to linger for an extra month.  Also, a July 2.6 release allows us
> to consider an early September 2.7 release that focuses on pulling in
> some of the GSoC work.  That work would be too much to try to push
> into an early August 2.6 release.
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