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authorSteve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>2017-07-16 18:21:10 +0100
committerSteve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>2017-07-16 18:21:10 +0100
commit9c104fe5b69717f24fefbe04bb149f20740dd520 (patch)
tree9c4ae1345d46301b874c11c94aba6725fde2c5da
parent27c0666152c5d42fc4366a8f105c5ec63099c114 (diff)
mention quarterly release cycle and stress panda is to be removed
-rw-r--r--docs/announce/2017.07.md7
-rw-r--r--tools/star/release-guide.pod4
-rw-r--r--tools/star/windows-msi.pod4
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/announce/2017.07.md b/docs/announce/2017.07.md
index 54aebb9..077ecaf 100644
--- a/docs/announce/2017.07.md
+++ b/docs/announce/2017.07.md
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ This is the eighth post-Christmas (production) release of Rakudo Star and
implements Perl v6.c. It comes with support for the MoarVM backend (all module
tests pass on supported platforms).
-This release includes "zef" as module installer. "panda" is to be shortly
-replaced by "zef" and will be removed in the near future.
+IMPORTANT: "panda" is to be removed very shortly since it is deprecated.
+Please use "zef" instead.
-2017.10 (October) will follow later this year.
+Currently, Star is on a quarterly release cycle and 2017.10 (October) will
+follow later this year.
Please note that this release of Rakudo Star is not fully functional with the
JVM backend from the Rakudo compiler. Please use the MoarVM backend only.
diff --git a/tools/star/release-guide.pod b/tools/star/release-guide.pod
index 27fb9eb..794d710 100644
--- a/tools/star/release-guide.pod
+++ b/tools/star/release-guide.pod
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ releases are free to choose a longer release cycle. Star releases
are also free to choose older releases of the compiler, NQP, or
MoarVM. The goal is to balance end-user stability needs with
progress being made on the compiler, modules, and other runtime
-components. Currently, Star is on a monthly release cycle; we
-expect to slow down to quarterly releases again sometime in the
-future.
+components. Currently, Star is on a quarterly release cycle.
=head2 Steps to create a release
diff --git a/tools/star/windows-msi.pod b/tools/star/windows-msi.pod
index 4341192..5795215 100644
--- a/tools/star/windows-msi.pod
+++ b/tools/star/windows-msi.pod
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ releases are free to choose a longer release cycle. Star releases
are also free to choose older releases of the compiler, NQP, and/or
MoarVM. The goal is to balance end-user stability needs with
progress being made on the compiler, modules, and other runtime
-components. Currently Star is on a monthly release cycle; we
-expect to slow down to quarterly releases again sometime in the
-future.
+components.
=head2 Steps to create an MSI package