[Monotone-devel] Re: Stable Roadmap?

[Graydon Hoare]

Michael Milner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been following along on recent developments and am very pleased with
> the stability of 0.26rc1.
>
> Is there currently any kind of roadmap to the first stable release?
>
> I've been using monotone extensively for some small projects with great
> success, but I am a bit reluctant to start using it with a larger team
> until it becomes "stable".
>
> Any thoughts?  What still needs to be done?

There's "what needs to be done" and "what needs to be done which will 
cause compatibility / migration events". There's still a fair bit to do, 
but I believe there are likely only 2 or 3 more possible migration / 
protocol-compatibility changes on the horizon.

  - Change to the cert format accompanying work on "management
    branches", or "ACLs", or whatever we wish to call it. This will
    probably involve re-issuing all the certs in your database, but
    probably not involve rebuilding your revision graph.

  - Modifications to netsync to support partial-pull operations, which
    might involve a database migrate command to change the schema and
    will almost surely involve a netsync protocol-number bump.

  - "Future-proofing" of the cert / revision format by including
    a cryptographic algorithm parameter. Possibly necessary,
    possibly not. It's entirely possible that discussion will
    conclude that epochs are sufficient for this problem; we
    just haven't had the discussion yet.

-graydon