Re: Release 4.4.0

[John W. Eaton]

On 12/27/2017 11:35 AM, Rik wrote:

> One of the items in the Release Checklist is to incorporate GSOC project 
> code and patches which look good from the patch tracker.  It is best to 
> do that early as that will de-stabilize things for a while and we want 
> to get some testing on the new code before sending it out in to the world.

I will try to make a 4.2.2 release ASAP.

I'm afraid that if we incorporate GSoC code and the spreadsheet 
functions from the I/O package now, then we will not have a new release 
for at least another 6 months, probably even longer.

Rather than falling into the trap of trying to include and fix 
everything before the next release I would prefer to move in the 
direction of more frequent releases with major new features only being 
added near the beginning of a release cycle.  So I propose that we not 
add any large new chunks of code at this time but focus on fixing what 
we can for a 4.4.0 release by the end of February.

jwe