I don't really agree on this. If you look at the bugtracker, there is almost no bug left in the R1/alpha list. And it's an alpha, so there is no need to fix all bugs in the R1 milestone now. Just tag the trunk as it is now as "alpha", package it and release it. Of course, by waiting a week more you will have more bugs solved, but then, by waiting another one you'll get even more and so on. So just leave them as is and release this alpha version. As someone said, the alpha is only a small step on the path to R1, and the schedule should be made with R1 in mind. This alpha release is targetted to developpers that want to help working on haiku. It should allow to build haiku itself, and build & test apps to run on it. That's all. Moreover, you can do as much testing as you want, even for a stable release there will be some bugs left. I think the code is ready for an alpha. There is no big work-in-progress thing in the trunk. All the big work is already done in branches (tracker refactoring, locale kit, gallium, ...). So the Haiku source tree switched to a release schedule on its own without any coordinator driving it. As proposed, wait for the end of GSoC so the mentors (and students) get more time to work on the alpha release, and schedule it not on code features, but on the website, iso building and hosting, and marketing part. I think the better soluion is to release it just before BeGeisert in this aspect. So make the announcement there. We have two month (september and october) to get a nice website, build the ISOs and host them. once the iso is built, the development can continue in haiku trunk as usual. there is no need for a special branch for this alpha. The branches should be made for all the features that are in the "Maybe R1" and "Unscheduled" lists on the wiki, while R1 features should be developped in the trunk itself. This is how haiku's svn always worked, and doing a release is not a valid reason to change that. Then... I'm not the release coordinator, so feel free to ignore what I said. -- Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy (random Haiku developper)