MEP: Mozart release 1.3.2

[Boriss Mejias]

Dear MEP-editor

Here is our MEP submission for the Mozart release 1.3.2

Best Regards
Boris Mejias and Yves Jaradin

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MEP: XXX
Title: Mozart release 1.3.2
Author: Yves Jaradin <yjaradin at info.ucl.ac.be>, Boriss Mejias <bmc at info.ucl.ac.be>
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 10-Feb-2006
Post-History:


Abstract
========

The purpose of this MEP is to make a new release of the Mozart platform.
The new release will:

* Fix various bugs in Mozart 1.3.1

* Add support for recent versions of gcc (gcc 3.4 and 4.0)

The release manager will be Boris Mejias, assisted by Yves Jaradin. In
order to make the release we will need:

* Update access to the website for Boris Mejías

* CVS write access for Yves Jaradin


Motivation
==========

Bugs
----

A fair amount of bugs have been fixed since Mozart 1.3.1 or will be
fixed soon. As the fixes are only available through CVS, many users
continues to fight with these bugs. A bug-fix release is therefore
recommended for the typical users.


GCC
---

Mozart 1.3.1 can't be built with gcc newer than 3.3. Mozart 1.3.2 will
be buildable with (at least) all commonly deployed versions of gcc up
to gcc 4.0.

Background
==========

Team
----

The release manager for Mozart 1.3.2 is Boriss Mejias, he will be
assisted by Yves Jaradin.  Everyone is invited to participate in
producing bug reports, fixes or patches.


Activities
----------

* Announcement of the coming release to hackers and users, asking for
  bug reports

* Bugs and documentation fixes + testing

* Code freeze

* Documentation fixes

* Release tagging and source release packaging (tgz, srpm)

* Critical binary release packaging (tgz, generic rpm, win32)

* update website for new release

* Release announcement

* More source and/or binary packages


Schedule
--------

No deadlines are fixed yet.


Backwards Compatibility
=======================

Mozart 1.3.2 will be compatible with Mozart 1.3.1.  Native modules
compiled with gcc >3.2 will be compatible with the binary release
packages.


Copyright
=========

This document has been placed in the public domain.