From justdave at bugzilla.org Tue Dec 19 01:43:30 2023 From: justdave at bugzilla.org (David Miller) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:43:30 -0500 Subject: Bugzilla release status update Message-ID: <5a403a2a-2585-457e-b60d-190e8b01cb7c@bugzilla.org> If you've been following our X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon accounts, you'll have been seeing status updates occasionally. But I haven't posted elsewhere in a while and I wanted to make sure everyone knew what was going on. At the point I made my last set of announcements on this list, I was under the impression that we probably only had a week or two of work remaining to get version 5.2 and its companion releases out the door. Unfortunately, as I started diving into the commit logs to get the release notes ready, I discovered we were much further from release than I thought. 150 hours of working on Bugzilla later, I think we're honestly back to the "couple weeks away" point for real now. I'm still having to fit this in during my free time around my real job. Getting a developer hired (might be me) so we can have someone dedicated to working on Bugzilla is high on the wish list. Remaining release blockers: * 4.4.14: 9 bugs * 5.0.4.1: 8 bugs * 5.2: 15 bugs * 5.3.3: 6 bugs * 5.9.1: 13 bugs * Total: 35 bugs (many of them affect multiple branches, so show up multiple times in the above list) I'd like to say it'll be a Christmas present, but the IT Guy in me says we shouldn't release it during the holidays, so we'll spend the extra time polishing it and hopefully release it in the first week of January. I'm very thankful to the many people who collectively donated $3411 so far towards our startup costs for the new non-profit. We still need another $239 to finish paying off those costs. We need that money by December 21 to be able to make the last payment on our startup loan on time. We also have $237 worth of monthly recurring donations, which will more than pay for our hosting costs, and is a step towards the $4000 monthly we would need to be able to start paying a permanent developer. If you think you can help (even a few dollars) towards either of those goals, head over tohttps://bugzilla.org/donate As always, you can get more frequent updates by following us on X or Mastodon: X: https://twitter.com/bugzilla Mastodon/Fediverse: https://techhub.social/@bugzilla We also stream occasionally on Twitch and YouTube (work sessions, bug triage parties, etc) : Twitch: https://twitch.tv/bugzillaproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bugzillaproject And for the quickest answers to your questions, we have chat rooms on IRC, Matrix, and Discord which you can find listed on https://www.bugzilla.org/support/ . If you prefer email, the support mailing list is listed on that same page. I'm looking forward to a very fruitful 2024. -- [Bugzilla Logo] *Dave Miller* Project Leader *Bugzilla Project* https://bugzilla.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: V7gQz0OI1FEAbbBc.png Type: image/png Size: 7345 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce at bugzilla.org https://lists.bugzilla.org/listinfo/announce