gearing up for a Drupal 6 RC2 on monday (Jan 7)

Hello World,

I am planning/preparing to release Drupal 6.0 RC2 on Monday
(7th January).

Right now, we are at a total of 6 critical issues, two of
which are
user experience issues (hiding textareas and the teaser
splitter), two
are database issues (improper indexes were added in RC1,
user_save()
misbehaves with improper data), and we have a search issue
and an
update.php memory limit issue. I hope to see even more
testers around
the patches presented, and eventually have "many"
of these fixed by
the time RC2 is rolled.

I crafted an announcement node for RC2, although it was
quite hard to
come up with a list of issues fixed since RC1 in human
terms, since
most of the issues are quite obscure, only occurring under
weird
circumstances: http://drupal.org/dr
upal-6.0-rc2 Polishing this up is
also appreciated.

The shrinking criticals queue also means that we are getting
really
close to the final release (unless major bugs surface). So
if you are
module / theme maintainers, feel free to jump on the
opportunity to
update your contributions. 

Translators will have new templates generated, as RC2 has a
(really)
small number of string changes, which were necessary to
make. As it
looks from the criticals queue, fixing some bugs will
require more
small additions to strings.

Gabor

On Jan 4, 2008 8:40 PM, Gábor Hojtsy <gaborhojtsy.hu> wrote:
> Hello World,
>
> I am planning/preparing to release Drupal 6.0 RC2 on
Monday (7th January).

The critical issue queue grown a bit, and some people
approached me
that there are users of Drupal 6 RC1 already in site
development, so
we should be a bit more sensitive about how we fix bugs (ie.
take a
bit more time to fix those critical bugs instead of rushing
fixes in),
and fix more bugs at once instead of putting out RCs more
often, so
the RC2 will probably come around the middle of the week
instead. (I
hope to fix more bugs, so do not stop a bit with your
activity in the
critical issue queue 

Gabor