Shifting goals for 3.5.x development
After sleeping on the release of Alpha2 for the 3.5.x branch I’ve decided to shift the development goals for this release. Rather then trying to pump a few new features into it I am going to instead focusing on polishing the existing changes with the goal of releasing a Beta within a week. Once it’s in Beta I would like to propose a string freeze for one month. At which time would be the planned 3.5 stable release. Over the last few days I’ve been trying to close some of the older bugs, however, if there is an feature you really want to see completed for 3.5.x submit now or hold your peace for at least a week.
A big motivator behind this shift is the desire to get people off of the 3.4.x API as it has a rather high initial investment in terms of configuration, and quite honestly has a very confusing configuration. Something that was unavoidable without some of the changes made to 3.5.x.
