Alpha1

[Matt Caswell]

On 22/04/2020 13:53, Matt Caswell wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22/04/2020 02:46, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:10:19AM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote:
>>> The 3.0 developers met via conference call this morning. All the
>>> functionality that we had planned for alpha 1 has now been merged, so we
>>> are now thinking that we will do the alpha 1 release on Thursday this
>>> week. That would imply a repo freeze tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Thoughts/opinions/objections to this proposal?
>>
>> Given that the list of required things for alpha 1 are done, it does seem
>> appropriate.  I know of a couple things that would be bug reports against
>> an alpha1 if produced right now, but ... what is an alpha for, if not to
>> trigger people to look and file bug reports? :)
> 
> I've seen no objections and everyone seems to be assuming this is
> happening, so the repo is now frozen ready for the release tomorrow.

The alpha1 release is now done!!

Thanks to everyone that has helped to make this happen.

We had a number of issues during the release itself - which is not
surprising given this is the first of the 3.0 series - but nothing too
significant.

Thanks to Richard for helping out during the release.

Matt