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Hi, developers,

After seeing Ruby 1.9.0-1 released earlier today, I, as the release
manager of the 1.8 series, would like to announce here that it is time
to start working on the next release, 1.8.7.

Below is the timeline I made up.  The reason for the slow start (long
period for discussion) is because I'm going on a week's trip next week
to Portland and Seattle.

Schedule for 1.8.7: (subject to change as it proceeds)

    Now - 2008-03-22
      Discuss what features should and/or can be backported, and get
      the release manager to make decisions as to which features are
      going to be worked on for 1.8.7.

    2008-03-23 18:00:00 JST
      Declare feature freeze.  The tracker will be keeping a complete
      list of bugs to fix and new features to implement.

    2008-03-24 - 2008-04-03
      Work on Tracker issues.  New features must be implemented by the
      end of this period, while some bugs may remain.

    2008-04-04 12:00:00 JST
      Declare code freeze.

      - The ruby_1_8_7 branch is forked off from the ruby_1_8 branch.

      - The ruby_1_8_7 branch is frozen from the beginning and any
        change on the branch requires an explicitly approval by the
        release manager.

      - The ruby_1_8 branch is not frozen, however, massive changes
        are forbidden for the moment.

    2008-04-05 18:00:00 JST
      Release 1.8.7-preview1

    2008-04-12 18:00:00 JST
      Release 1.8.7-preview2

    2008-04-20 18:00:00 JST
      Release 1.8.7.
      Lift code freeze.


I realize we have a lot of things to do because the difference between
1.9 and 1.8 (1.8.6) has become huge and so many changes have been made
to 1.8 since 1.8.6 was released.  That is why it is going to take this
long time to make 1.8.7 a decent release for mission critical scenes
yet an exciting and beloved release for ambitious users.

Please make sure to Cc me important mails, especially ones that need
my approval.  I tend to drop a ball on high-volume mailing lists
because of my poor fast reading skills.

For issue tracking, I made a tracker for 1.8.7 release engineering:

   http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=426&atid=22040

Any changes to the tracker issues will be forwarded to me, so you
don't have to bother pointing them to me via email.

Now, let's start the work!

Regards,

--
Akinori MUSHA / http://akinori.org/

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[#33946] Symbol#inspect should use rb_str_inspect — sheepman <sheepman@...>

[#33947] Ruby 1.9.0-1 snapshot released — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

[#33948] Schedule for the 1.8.7 release — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>

[#33950] Ruby 1.9.0-1 build failure: error: `r15660' undeclared — "Hiroshi Ichikawa" <gimite@...>

[#33952] Float('1__1') — Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@...>

[#33954] Mac OS X 10.5.2でruby-1.9.0-1のmake testが失敗 — 高尾 宏治 <kouji@...>

[#33955] --encoding affects script encoding — sheepman <sheepman@...>

[#33962] Ruby1.9.0でのインタプリタ組み込みについての質問 — Masayuki Yamaguchi <Yamaguchi.Masayuki@...>

[#33966] Re: [ruby-cvs:22881] Ruby:r15644 (trunk): * test/ruby/test_m17n_comb.rb (TestM17NComb::test_str_chomp): test — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#33967] $SAFE=1でLoadErrorではなくInsecure operationになる — "Ken Date" <itacchi@...>

[#33972] なぜ transcode.c の transcode_loop で from_utf8 が特別扱い — Martin Duerst <duerst@...>

[#33974] Test::Unit::Collector::Dirがtest_*.rb以外集めてくれない — "Ken Date" <itacchi@...>

[#33983] Re: [ruby-cvs:22913] Re: Ruby:r15674 (trunk): * gc.c (add_heap): sort heaps array in ascending order to use — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

[#33989] Hash#compare_by_identity breaks commutativity of Hash#== — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#33991] Maybe IRB bug!! by 09 — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#33992] debug.rb:221:in `debug_command': undefined method `callcc' for #<DEBUGGER__::Context:0xb7a85914> (NoMethodError) — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#33993] Re: [ruby-cvs:22935] Ruby:r15695 (trunk): * string.c (is_utf8_lead_byte, count_utf8_lead_bytes_with_ulong): — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#33994] printf "[%08f]\n", 0.0/0.0 — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#33996] No definition for sym_succ など — Martin Duerst <duerst@...>

[#34000] --program-suffix option of configure.bat(mswin32) — KIMURA Koichi <kimura.koichi@...>

[#34002] sprintf("% e", Inf) — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#34005] Array#slice! may be too slow and allocate memory too much — "Yusuke ENDOH" <mame@...>

[#34006] 11.divmod(3.5) — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#34008] local_variables contains strings — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#34010] RUBY_*定数のencoding — Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA <zn@...>

[#34011] Should --verbose be equal to -v ? — Yugui <yugui@...>

[#34019] DelegateClassのバックトレース — "GO Noguchi" <gonoguti@...>

[#34020] MurmurHash problem — Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>

[#34021] singleton class extended by a module with module_function — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#34022] patch of lazy sweep gc — authorNari <authornari@...>

[#34030] uint32_t — KIMURA Koichi <kimura.koichi@...>

[#34033] ruby coding guideline — "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>

[#34037] Ruby performance gains on SPARC — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

[#34042] IOはこれからもEnumerableなのか — rubikitch@...

[#34048] CGI::Cookie.new を高速化するバッチ — "Makoto Kuwata" <kwa@...>

[#34052] IO should provide #each_char and #chars — Yugui <yugui@...>

[#34059] putsでSEGV — rubikitch@...

[#34066] Bignum#div — Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@...>

[#34067] Array#take,take_while,drop,drop_whlie — "Yusuke ENDOH" <mame@...>

[#34068] lgamma_r requires _REENTRANT on Solaris — "Yusuke ENDOH" <mame@...>

[#34071] procを組み合わせた再帰呼び出しで例外が投げられない — wanabe <s.wanabe@...>

[#34072] rb_memsearch optimization — "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>

[#34077] 異なるエンコーディングだと同じバイト列でも==にならない件 — rubikitch@...

[#34086] extend spawn to change attributes of child process. — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#34093] 拡張ライブラリ初期化中でのmodule_eval — Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>

[#34094] tempfile.unlink 後に tempfile.close — SATOH Fumiyasu <fumiyas@...>

[#34095] (再送) Cygwin で Resolv.getaddress が失敗する — Kouhei Yanagita <yanagi@...>

[#34100] delegate Kernel#{gets,readline,readlines} to ARGF — Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>

[#34105] rational.rb, complex.rb and mathn.rb — Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@...>

[#34109] LP64: date.rb:321:in `convert': integer 86400000000000 too big to convert to `int' (RangeError) — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#34112] Module#define_methodがprivateなわけ — rubikitch@...

[#34114] Is 'Class.new(Class)' valid? — rucila <rucila@...>

[#34116] Improving Fixnum#gcd(Fixnum) — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>

[#34117] backporting features from 1.9 to 1.8 — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>

[#34119] Process.daemon kills other threads — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

[#34122] --disable=all --enable=gems — Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA <zn@...>

[#34128] enumerator with certain built-in methods dumps core — "Yusuke ENDOH" <mame@...>

[#34136] thread.c (fastthread)の状況 — Daigo Moriwaki <techml@...>

[#34144] [質問２点] C からの定数参照 & thread switching コストの低減 — Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...>

[#34150] sigsetjmp significantly slower on OSX. — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

[#34158] Complex組み込み — Masahiro TANAKA <masa16.tanaka@...>

[#34159] ruby-trunk Marshal.dump bug — nagachika <rucila@...>

[#34162] GC heap size less patch — authorNari <authornari@...>

[#34163] Array#shift/unshift の高速化 — wanabe <s.wanabe@...>

[#34180] メソッドにクラスを定義させるとprivateになる？ — rubikitch@...

[#34184] Re: [ruby-cvs:23097] Ruby:r15858 (trunk): * io.c: IO.copy_stream implemented. — "U.Nakamura" <usa@...>

[#34189] Re: [ruby-cvs:23106] Re: Ruby:r15866 (trunk): * numeric.c (num_quo): should convert its operand to Rational. — Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@...>

[#34191] Object#singleton_class — rubikitch@...

[ruby-dev:33948] Schedule for the 1.8.7 release

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[#33954] Mac OS X 10.5.2でruby-1.9.0-1のmake testが失敗 — 高尾宏治 <kouji@...>

[#34072] rb_memsearch　optimization — "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>