[Fab-user] Beta 1 out

[Jeff Forcier]

Hi all,

Fabric is now officially in beta!

This means a feature freeze; I'd like for there to be zero behavioral
changes, with only bugfixes and docs/test updates between now and
final. If something critical comes up I may sneak in a change or two,
but I'd prefer everything possible to be pushed off to 1.0.

To facilitate this, I have branched Fabric: there is an 0.9 branch for
the beta, then final and post-final releases, and master is now what
will become 1.0, with the expected new features and accompanying
chance of bugs. The docs now reflect this, having per-branch
subdirectories (vague requests get redirected to the stable version.)
There's a note at the top of every page making this obvious, the idea
being stolen directly from docs.djangoproject.com. This may not be the
last good idea I borrow from them :)

Finally, the only behavioral difference between branches right now is
that master has a new "reboot" operation (was in side branch, now
merged/deleted.) Feel free to give me feedback on the current
implementation, it's rough but works-for-me in the one use case I
wrote it for.

Please let me know if I've goofed anything up with this reorganization
and I'll fix it post-haste. Otherwise, I plan to focus on fixing bugs,
building up the test suite and overhauling the docs so we can get 0.9
final out the door.

Thanks as always,
Jeff