<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p data-start="140" data-end="149" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Dear all,</p><p data-start="151" data-end="253" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">We would like to share with you the<b> Release Plan for MEI 6.0</b>, presented at the last Community Meeting.</p><p data-start="255" data-end="387" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">We will have a few pre-releases detailed in the following list of milestones (the listed milestones match those included in GitHub).</p><p data-start="389" data-end="479" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Open GitHub issues will be removed from the MEI 6 milestones (listed below) under the following criteria:</p><ul data-start="481" data-end="556" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li data-start="481" data-end="509">No associated pull request</li><li data-start="510" data-end="536">No conclusive discussion</li><li data-start="537" data-end="556">No final decision</li></ul><p data-start="558" data-end="573" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><strong data-start="558" data-end="573">Exceptions:</strong></p><ul data-start="575" data-end="627" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li data-start="575" data-end="588">Severe bugs</li><li data-start="589" data-end="627">Pre-release specifics declared below</li></ul><h2 data-start="629" data-end="671" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Pre-release dates and milestone details</h2><h3 data-start="673" data-end="712" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">MEI 6.0-0+featureFreeze (June 25th)</h3><p data-start="714" data-end="756" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><strong data-start="714" data-end="756">Last chance for changes to the schema.</strong></p><p data-start="758" data-end="1053" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">GitHub issues will be removed from MEI 6 milestones according to the criteria presented above, <b>except</b> when they are associated exclusively with the <i>guidelines</i>, the <i>build process</i>, or <i>presentation</i> (e.g., online appearance and interaction), as these will be addressed in the following pre-releases.</p><h3 data-start="1055" data-end="1088" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">MEI 6.0-1+meiODDs (July 31st)</h3><p data-start="1090" data-end="1100" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><strong data-start="1090" data-end="1100">Focus:</strong></p><ol data-start="1102" data-end="1187" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li data-start="1102" data-end="1149">Introduce updated schema for MEI ODDs files.</li><li data-start="1150" data-end="1187">Introduce Guidelines for this schema.</li></ol><p data-start="1189" data-end="1248" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><strong data-start="1189" data-end="1248">Last chance for changes associated with the guidelines.</strong></p><p data-start="1250" data-end="1471" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">GitHub issues will be removed from the MEI 6 milestones (see criteria above) <b>except</b> when they are associated exclusively with the <i>build process</i> and/or <i>presentation</i>, as these will be addressed in the following pre-releases.</p><h3 data-start="1473" data-end="1510" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">MEI 6.0-2+pureODD (November 27th)</h3><p data-start="1512" data-end="1522" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><strong data-start="1512" data-end="1522">Focus:</strong></p><ol data-start="1524" data-end="1591" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li data-start="1524" data-end="1591">Convert current RelaxNG schema definitions to pureODD (aka TEI).</li></ol><p data-start="1593" data-end="1655" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><strong data-start="1593" data-end="1655">Last chance for changes associated with the build process.</strong></p><p data-start="1657" data-end="1853" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">GitHub issues will be removed from the MEI 6 milestones (see criteria above) <b>except</b> when they are associated exclusively with <i>presentation</i>, as these will be addressed in the following pre-release.</p><h3 data-start="1855" data-end="1901" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">MEI 6.0-3+presentation (currently undated)</h3><p data-start="1903" data-end="1913" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><strong data-start="1903" data-end="1913">Focus:</strong></p><ol data-start="1915" data-end="2069" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li data-start="1915" data-end="1932">Build process.</li><li data-start="1933" data-end="1983">Appearance of the Guidelines in PDF and online.</li><li data-start="1984" data-end="2029">Technical documentation in the repository.</li><li data-start="2030" data-end="2069">Code appearance and editing support.</li></ol><p data-start="2071" data-end="2128" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><strong data-start="2071" data-end="2128">Last chance for changes associated with presentation.</strong></p><p data-start="2130" data-end="2207" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">GitHub issues will be removed from the MEI 6 milestones (see criteria above). We will work on the guidelines presentation, specifically, access to schema customisations.</p><p data-start="2130" data-end="2207" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><br></p><p data-start="2276" data-end="2369" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">If you have any questions about the pre-releases or the plan, please feel free to contact us.</p><p data-start="2371" data-end="2453" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Looking forward to our next release, thank you for all your work on improving MEI.</p><p data-start="2455" data-end="2468" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Kind regards,</p><p data-start="2470" data-end="2512" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Martha and Benni<br data-start="2486" data-end="2489">MEI Technical co-Chairs</p></body></html>