2.22rc1

[Luis Villa]

On 1/10/06, Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat at bugzilla.org> wrote:
>         So, since bug 285614 is now sitting in the approval queue, instead of
> 2.21.2, we're going to be releasing 2.22rc1. There are no 2.22 blockers
> left, so this only makes sense.
>
>         I understand that it will delay the QA process by some additional time;
> I'm okay with that.
>
>         Also, once we release 2.22rc1 we will branch and the trunk will be open
> for development again. :-)
>
>         I'd like to congratulate everybody -- this is our first RC with no
> remaining blockers in a *long* time. We may find a few more blockers
> during the RC cycle, but for now things look great. :-)

This is great to hear.

For what it is worth, it is a lot easier for linux packagers if the
actual version number is something like 2.21.90 (release candidate 1)-
i.e., something that you can do an actual numeric comparison on.

Luis

P.S. GNOME just upgraded to 2.20 (albeit plus a lot of patches ;) and
people are very, very pleased so far. Congrats and thanks...