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                      An Emerging Tla Roadmap
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  /Updated: `6 Feb 2005'/

* Next Planned Releases

  ^These dates are /not/ cast in stone.   They are rough estimates
  and vague goals.^

  /GNU Arch 2.0/ postponed indefinately.

  /GNU Arch 1.4pre2/ uncertain -- it depends entirely on what comes
  down the pipeline from `baz'.

  /GNU Arch 1.3.1/ /`15 Mar 2005'/ -- This will be primarily a 
  maintenance/rejuvination release of GNU Arch 1.x.   Experience
  has shown that permitting the `baz' line to serve as the de facto
  mainline for GNU Arch 1.x will be highly problematic.  Therefore,
  some resources are being redirected from the GNU Arch 2.0 and
  GNU Arch 1.4 lines of development in order to produce suitable 
  1.x releases.


* Other Upcoming Milestones

  /Issue Tracking for GNU Arch/ /`15 Mar 2005'/ In conjunction with
  the release of GNU Arch 1.3.1, I will announce a new bug-tracking
  and support infrastructure for GNU Arch releases.

  Our aim will be to provide direct, person-to-person issue tracking
  support.  In other words, resources permitting, 5 days per week,
  "bug czar" volunteers will read and individually reply to incoming
  issue reports, maintaining in the process the database of known
  bugs, their priorities, and the status of their fixes.  (Initially, 
  the labor and computing infrastructure for this purpose will be 
  donated by Seyza Corp.)


  /Documentation Update/ /`30 Mar 2005'/  Close on the heals of the
  1.3.1 release, we intended to release an updated version of the
  tutorial documentation, catching it back up to the GNU line, and
  making it easier to maintain and keep up to date in the future.



* Periodic Milestones

  We plan to make /GNU Arch 1.x/ releases not less than once per
  quarter.


* Design Discussions and Standards Development

  We intend to agressively lead focussed design discussions about
  critical areas of Arch design and to work to produce, as a byproduct
  of those, authoritative standards documents defining the Arch
  protocol.



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