Re: [Fab-user] Fabric release candidate 1 out and **on PyPI**!

[Christian Vest Hansen]

Congratulations and may you have a speedy recovery!

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A bunch of announcements, apologies for dumping them on you all at once:
>
> 1. Fabric 0.9rc1 is out!
>
> Code-wise, just a few smallish bugfixes -- it's mostly for...
>
> 2. Docs overhaul!
>
> The documentation has been almost completely redone and massively
> expanded, including but not limited to: a new tutorial, multiple
> different usage doc pages, some docstring updates, and tweaks to the
> other assorted files (README, FAQ etc.) These changes are now all live
> on http://docs.fabfile.org -- please take a look!
>
> 3. Paramiko vendorization
>
> Due to the ongoing Paramiko issues, I have included a copy of Paramiko
> 1.7.4 in our source distribution, starting today. easy_install seems
> to drop it where it needs to go without issue, and it's not cluttering
> up the fabric.* namespace either, so I'm happy. Whether this is
> temporary or turns into a full-blown fork attempt remains to be seen.
>
> 3. PyPI has finally seen its first taste of Fabric 0.9! (0.1.1 is
> still available, however -- learned that lesson from Paramiko.)
>
> One of the reasons of doing this is so there is "a" release up on PyPI
> at long last, so more users can test it out (and so I could get used
> to the deploy process) even though it's not technically a final
> release. And the reason this is RC1 and not 0.9 final is...
>
> 4. I may be out of touch for the next week or two, starting right about now.
>
> Going in for some fun fun lower abdominal surgery tomorrow morning,
> and if it's like the last time I did this, I'll be alternately in lots
> of pain or on crazy drugs for a week or more. Hopefully it'll be less
> invasive than last time or I'm misremembering how out of touch I was
> during recovery -- but I may not be up to checking my email or fixing
> bugs for at least a few days.
>
> Anyway, so I'm basically ready for a release, now that the doc
> overhaul is done, but didn't want to do something stamped as "please
> use this on your production servers" right before going AWOL for a
> bit. Thus, an RC. Unless there are show-stopper issues with the
> setup.py (or, somehow, others that have gone undetected till now,) I
> expect 0.9.0 will be out as soon as I'm conscious enough to release
> it.
>
> Finally,
>
> 5. Not an announcement really, but: thanks for your continued support!
> I apologize profusely for how long the 0.9 process has taken. Now that
> a solid foundation is in place I expect actual, agile/rapid
> development from here on out. I'm very happy with the amount of
> feedback and bug reports that have been coming in -- please keep it
> up!
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
>
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Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Christian Vest Hansen.