Instead of waiting until the last minute I’ve started rather early with the release notes for 0.9.8. I do hope this reflects in the quality (eventually).

So far this makes up for some impressive reading, IMHO. One indicator that the pace has increased is the fact that I do not have the usual release blues. What’s that, you ask?
Well, usually it gets to a point where I am not motivated to add anything else any more (because I run out of things to do?). Then nothing happens for a week or two and after that I just write the release notes and build a release.

Not so this time! However, having promised a Christmas release I do have to restrain myself and leave some time for (hopefully) enough testing. I did have some hope that the snapshots would help with that, but no luck so far. I am sure this will happen over time, though.

(To be fair: all this means is that I haven’t received any feedback on snapshots so far. Given that I found and fixed a few bugs in the meantime could mean that I do test more than I think or that others do test even less!)

Either way, the release will happen and that is good.