Re: We should get 5.9** out soon

[dana <dana@xxxxxxx>]

I hope to post a test release within the next week. I need to go through
the recent activity myself and do a few documentation updates, and Mikael
suggested that i might also wait for Bart's patch from w/49955 to go in.
If anyone else wants anything in for testing, please try to get it done
soon.

Re: 5.9 vs 6.0, based on the discussion here and on IRC it seems like we
have two strong 5.9s (Daniel and Axel), one weak 5.9 (Matthew), and two
weak 6.0s (pws and Bart). Mikael and i are indifferent. Please let me
know if i've misinterpreted anyone's position. If not, i think the 5.9s
have it so far.

PS: There has been some discussion in the past about changing the release
process so that instead of going directly off master we e.g. make a 5.9
branch as the 'cycle' is winding down and release off that. Since we
never settled on any of those process changes my current plan is to just
release off master like usual, but let me know if anyone feels
differently about that too.

dana