[development] Drupal 5 release schedule: update

[Dries Buytaert]

Hello world,

it has been exactly two months since the start of the Drupal code  
freeze:

   http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0.0-code-freeze

As the development cycle was only 3 months, a 2 month code freeze  
should have given you plenty of time to upgrade some of your themes  
and modules.  If you haven't upgraded your modules/themes yet, I  
wouldn't wait too long.

While I want at least 2-4 weeks of public beta testing, there are  
only 3 critical bugs at this point in time.

   http://drupal.org/project/issues? 
projects=3060&versions=10195,9902,9842,9753,9728,6487&categories=bug&pri 
orities=1&states=1,8,13,14

Chances are that we'll need fewer betas/RCs than we had for Drupal 4.7.

Also, now we're in beta mode, we're going to be a lot more strict  
with regard to usability patches.  Small usability patches and  
documentation improvements can still go in, but larger usability  
patches are likely to be postponed until Drupal 6.0.

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Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/