MEP:	104
Title:	Mozart release 1.3.2
Author:	Yves Jaradin <yjaradin at info.ucl.ac.be>, Boriss Mejias <bmc at info.ucl.ac.be>
Status:	Accepted
Type:	Standards Track
Content-Type:	text/x-rst
Created:	10-Feb-2006
Post-History:

Abstract

The purpose of this MEP is to make a new release of the Mozart platform. The new release will:

Fix various bugs in Mozart 1.3.1
Add support for recent versions of gcc (gcc 3.4 and 4.0)

The release manager will be Boris Mejias, assisted by Yves Jaradin. In order to make the release we will need:

Update access to the website for Boris MejÃas
CVS write access for Yves Jaradin

Motivation

Bugs

A fair amount of bugs have been fixed since Mozart 1.3.1 or will be fixed soon. As the fixes are only available through CVS, many users continues to fight with these bugs. A bug-fix release is therefore recommended for the typical users.

GCC

Mozart 1.3.1 can't be built with gcc newer than 3.3. Mozart 1.3.2 will be buildable with (at least) all commonly deployed versions of gcc up to gcc 4.0.

Background

Team

The release manager for Mozart 1.3.2 is Boriss Mejias, he will be assisted by Yves Jaradin. Everyone is invited to participate in producing bug reports, fixes or patches.

Activities

Announcement of the coming release to hackers and users, asking for bug reports
Bugs and documentation fixes + testing
Code freeze
Documentation fixes
Release tagging and source release packaging (tgz, srpm)
Critical binary release packaging (tgz, generic rpm, win32)
update website for new release
Release announcement
More source and/or binary packages

Schedule

No deadlines are fixed yet.

Backwards Compatibility

Mozart 1.3.2 will be compatible with Mozart 1.3.1. Native modules compiled with gcc >3.2 will be compatible with the binary release packages.

Copyright

This document has been placed in the public domain.

Votes

Raphaël Collet     [ACCEPT]
Denys Duchier      []
Seif Haridi        []
Torbjörn Lager     []
Konstantin Popov   [ACCEPT]
Camilo Rueda       [ACCEPT]
Christian Schulte  [ACCEPT]
Gert Smolka        []
Peter Van Roy      [ACCEPT]