[edit] Roadmap

Milestones below are used to break the path to 1.0 down into significant feature developments: it is intended that each milestone represents a discrete piece of achievable work, so that progress can continue to be made.

Recent changes: we did miss a release, and because we're not working to the roadmap, I've updated the roadmap to reflect better how we're trying get to 1.0. The amount of work we're undertaking has increased slightly, but I think we feel happier about the result, which should be simpler and more secure.

[edit] Release Strategy

• source code releases at M1, M2 and M3 as "alpha" or "developer-only" releases of code known to mostly work.
• preview releases at M4 and M5. These will consist of a source release, and possibly static binary release for GNU-ish OSes.
• beta release programme TBA from M6-ish onwards, leading to 1.0 release.

No dates are yet determined on the schedule below: these can only be realistically set when we see how long it takes us to get to the next milestone!

There may also be overlap between the different milestones, in terms of features for later milestones appearing in some form earlier (but not later).

[edit] Release Milestones