From 9c104fe5b69717f24fefbe04bb149f20740dd520 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Mynott Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 18:21:10 +0100 Subject: mention quarterly release cycle and stress panda is to be removed --- docs/announce/2017.07.md | 7 ++++--- tools/star/release-guide.pod | 4 +--- tools/star/windows-msi.pod | 4 +--- 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 -- cgit v1.1