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class=153330500-20062006>>> <FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000
size=3>Hoping to do a release sometime tomorrow if everything goes well
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class=153330500-20062006><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000
size=3>>> and you are ok with it. .. </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT><SPAN
class=153330500-20062006>Looks like they are going to have a show and tell
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT><SPAN class=153330500-20062006>>> session on
Friday that I can potentially use to show what we are doing at the rails
conference. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=153330500-20062006>Yes, let's get this stabilized and released, there's a
lot of really good improvements. I'd say go for Tue if possible, that
gives us one last day for finding any bugs/polishing things before you hit the
road Thu.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=153330500-20062006>My expectation: we'll have a fairly quick turnaround to
putting out a 0.2.1 update to fix loose ends, but I think it's fine if we push
out 0.2.0 with a few rough edges. I'd characterize us at having an
alpha-level facility, maybe about to settle enough that we can all it
beta. My criteria for declaring beta-ness would be that we believe the
basic structure and protocols are solid and not likely to
change.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=153330500-20062006>And I can do any last-minute patching on
Thursday if you needed something by Friday. By all means, get in on
the show-and-tell if you can!! That'll be an excellent way to get the word
out and get some exposure.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=153330500-20062006>I'll try to suppress the urge to do cool new stuff this
week and stay focused on docs and polishing so this looks good to the
world.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=153330500-20062006>~ Deb</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>