We had some bad planning last year when merging the package management work and didn't expect it would take more than one year to stabilize everything again. We should have released an alpha 5 before that merge, but we didn't, and now it's too late for that.
So, we skipped the alpha 5 release and we are working on the first beta of Haiku now. As things currently go it will probably be released in early 2015. I'm doing as much as I can to get the remaining issues fixed. Sorry for the delay, but we want to make a good impression with our first beta and there are some unacceptable bugs left.
As PulkoMandy said, a new release is just around the corner!
We are adding and merging the last remaining features (which cause the spikes in the graph Kim linked to) that will be part of our first full release (R1), once that is finished we will do a bit of quality assurance/polishing in preparation of the beta phase. The beta phase will quickly lead us towards actually releasing R1.
The second birthday of Alpha 4 is no cause of celebration at all, because it means that there have been no new releases in more than two years. Really sad.
Actually, I find it to be a good thing because if you read the previous post(s), it appears this means that Haiku is finally proceeding to Beta 1, rather than being stuck in the Alpha stage forever.
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Re: Happy 2nd Birthday, Alpha 4
https://dev.haiku-os.org/milestone/R1/beta1
http://haiku.tips/release-burndown-chart/
Re: Happy 2nd Birthday, Alpha 4
Of course not!
We had some bad planning last year when merging the package management work and didn't expect it would take more than one year to stabilize everything again. We should have released an alpha 5 before that merge, but we didn't, and now it's too late for that.
So, we skipped the alpha 5 release and we are working on the first beta of Haiku now. As things currently go it will probably be released in early 2015. I'm doing as much as I can to get the remaining issues fixed. Sorry for the delay, but we want to make a good impression with our first beta and there are some unacceptable bugs left.
Re: Happy 2nd Birthday, Alpha 4
As PulkoMandy said, a new release is just around the corner!
We are adding and merging the last remaining features (which cause the spikes in the graph Kim linked to) that will be part of our first full release (R1), once that is finished we will do a bit of quality assurance/polishing in preparation of the beta phase. The beta phase will quickly lead us towards actually releasing R1.
Re: Happy 2nd Birthday, Alpha 4
The second birthday of Alpha 4 is no cause of celebration at all, because it means that there have been no new releases in more than two years. Really sad.
Re: Happy 2nd Birthday, Alpha 4
Actually, I find it to be a good thing because if you read the previous post(s), it appears this means that Haiku is finally proceeding to Beta 1, rather than being stuck in the Alpha stage forever.