Beyond The Yellow Bubble

Mary Beth Raven recently posted an interesting article in which she provided some insight into the Release process for 8.5.1and the steps such as string freeze and pixel freeze needed to control quality of the released code.  I thought I should take a leaf from IBM's book and introduce similar controls for my own OpenNTF project....

I am therefore pleased to announce that as of last night .Domino Framework 1.0 has entered string freeze....  Those of you have that have seen the betas up close will know this project is largely held together using mirrors and bits of string.  We believe that freezing the string will lessen the chance the code will break prior to delivery.

Tomorrow evening the software will enter pixie freeze...  I will be sending a team of pixies up to the north pole to gather pixie dust.  The hope is that sprinkling frozen pixie dust on the code will make all those remaining bugs disappear prior to release.

The gold code will be posted on OpenNTF over the weekend.  I would like to than the millions of .Domino Framework design partners who particpated in our extensive early release program.  This project has been 10+ years in the making and I hope that it will assist at least one other Notes developer out there in the yellowverse.