milestone 1.7.1

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 08:49, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Joshua Root wrote:
>> Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>>> Any idea when milestone 1.7.1 will be complete?
>>
>> RSN. :-)
>
> I have one last idea for which I will send out another mail after  
> this.
>
>>> It seems that all tickets but one are closed, and the last real  
>>> activity
>>> on it is on the order of months.
>>
>> Yes. Now is a great time to test the release_1_7 branch and report  
>> any
>> regressions from 1.7.0. If nobody moves on the direct mode issues  
>> soon,
>> we'll punt on it for 1.7.1.
>
> Do we need a release candidate or are we going to release it right  
> away?
> I think the only major changes have been to the upgrade proc.
>
> Changes:
> http://trac.macports.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags% 
> 2Frelease_1_7_0&old=HEAD&new_path=%2Fbranches% 
> 2Frelease_1_7&new=HEAD#file17

I don't think I'd bother with a release candidate.

We should still merge back from trunk those handful of small changes  
that I mentioned in another thread some weeks ago.