[elephant-devel] Inviting comment on future plans

[Ian Eslick]

New release schedule and roadmap:

Robert and I have decided to rethink the upcoming release schedule  
for Elephant.  There are sufficient quality and stability  
enhancements in this release, and a properly coherent feature set, to  
justify moving towards a 1.0 release in the near future.  Therefore  
the current CVS (0.6.1 beta) will shortly become 0.9rc1.  There is a  
small feature list on queue to get us to 1.0.  There will probably be  
at least two minor releases before 1.0, one to expose a few important  
new features and one that is essentially a release candidate.  The  
revised roadmap is documented in the Trac system (http://trac.common- 
lisp.net/elephant).

Some of the big new features that were planned (i.e. lisp backend)  
have been moved to a 1.1 or remain unassigned to any release  
milestone.  Development after 1.0 will slow down from its current  
pace, but the maintainers are committed to the future of Elephant and  
will support bug reports and any new feature development initiated by  
users (or by our own needs and motivations).

Source control:

We're planning to move to Darcs shortly, with the hope that the  
Windows solution improves at some point.  For those who want to  
actively develop on Windows in the meantime, we'll support a  
development 'branch' in SVN.  This is an interim solution until Darcs  
on Windows matures further or cl-darcs matures sufficiently.

OpenMCL:

We're still looking for OpenMCL testers for versions 1.0 and  
especially 64-bit 1.1.


Best Regards,
Ian and Robert