MEP: 104 Title: Mozart release 1.3.2 Author: Yves Jaradin , Boriss Mejias 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 Mejías * 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]