# Tom Lord's Hackery

# An Emerging Tla Roadmap

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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