next release?

[Danny Kukawka]

Hi,

we have now since September 2006 (6 months) no new stable relase of HAL. 
And 0.5.9RC1 is now also some weeks old. If I take a look at the list in
this mail: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.hal/7255 
IMO almost everything is fixed/in in git HEAD.

While some stuff have to wait to get in until 0.5.9 (e.g. sound devices 
stuff, ACPI/PMU changes) other features get implemented without any
discussion (e.g. locking API).

The point is: We should release now _and_ speed up the release cycle. I
really hate the current situation and also to package permanently git 
snapshots. If we now release we can avoid to get permanently new
bugreports for 0.5.8.1 which is really outdated (but the last release)
and the most developers don't use it any more. This make bugreporting
very difficult and is frustrating for both, the users and the developers.

At least we should release every 2 months, this would also speed up the
development and allow us to get more release for testing between the 
releases of the distributions. The current development cycle is 
unacceptable.

Sorry, don't missunderstand all this, but we need to change it.

Danny