[bind10-dev] release plans, alpha

[Jeremy C. Reed]

As discussed during phone call, we will do the alpha release as 
scheduled -- Thursday September 27.

Please do a short master freeze at around 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 
September 26 for a couple hours (to give time for some builders) and I 
will do the branch toward this alpha only. If you need more time for any 
merges, please let me know. I can hold off for a short time or I can 
merge in your changes if required into my branch.

I plan on making a permanent branch for the final release starting with 
the upcoming beta (within about 7 weeks). There will be lots of work 
after that to do handle pullup requests. I will be seeking a volunteer 
or assignment of a developer (or two) to help handle these merges. As an 
alternative, we could consider just staying with master until the 
release candidate. But this may be good practice for quality control.

I would also like a volunteer or an assignment of a developer to assist 
with the beta and later releases which includes following checklists and 
also providing feedback and suggestions toward improving this process.

For my initial alpha announcement (release notes), I'd like to list 
about any expected changes or known significant bugs to be fixed and the 
significant features to be added for the upcoming beta. Do we have a 
wiki page for this yet? Or can you please just let me know what is 
expected before middle of Wednesday?

  Jeremy C. Reed
  ISC