[wp-hackers] WP 2.1 Launch and Heads-up for Plugin Developers

[Lloyd D Budd]

On 9/18/06, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> Mark Jaquith wrote:
> > On Sep 18, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Filipe Fortes wrote:
> >
> >> As a plugin author it would be great if we could get a heads up (say a
> >> week)
> >> before the launch of WP 2.1.
> >
> > Ryan said there would be a beta release at least a week before the launch.
>
> Well, hopefully longer than that.  I want to do at least a couple of bug
> hunts after we go beta.  Before we had a rather lengthy, undefined beta
> period but didn't do much to motivate testing efforts.
> Ryan

Thanks Ryan! That will be great for the WordPress ecosystem.
Projecting of a month or greater would allow projects around
documenting, translating, plug-in, theming, supporting, and marketing
to really take part in the success of a release.