I just took a peek into the WordPress roadmap for 2.7 and I was more than surprised that there are only 12 tickets left open for this new version. That has to be the fewest open tickets left for any build of WordPress that I’ve ever seen–by far!
Understanding how the system works here, having a 3 or 4 dozen “non-blocking” tickets left open when a new milestone is released is hardly unusual for any type of software and WordPress is no exception. I’ve seen well over a hundred tickets left open when previous versions of WordPress went “gold”. Some of these tickets are pushed to the next minor update and some to the next milestone and it’s completely normal to do things this way.
In the case of this next milestone of WordPress the developers are obviously not letting this one out on the streets until they’re absolutely satisfied with it. Over 650 tickets will have been closed before 2.7 is released to WordPress users all over the world and it’s well worth the wait, believe me. I’m actually betting certain others that the moment that 2.7 is released, all open tickets will have been closed with zero remaining and that has to be a first in WordPress history.
And for those who have been running the “cutting edge” trunk of 2.7 or 2.7 RC1 on your sites and are not on the wp-testers mailing list, you’ll find a notification to upgrade to the final of 2.7 when you log into your Admin after the final version has been released. You’ll then be able to use the new core auto-upgrade feature in 2.7 to bring you up to the final and off the trunk as far as updates are concerned.
Amazing work by an amazing crew of developers and testers. With 2.7, WordPress will have finally come of age.
