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@@ -19,22 +19,25 @@ via email.
 Current Trajectory
 ==================
 
 Current Trajectory
 ==================
 

-Now that we've finished the 0.26 release, we're working on 0.27, and
+Now that we've finished the 0.28 release, we're working on 0.29, and

 although we're not certain which new features will be included, here
 although we're not certain which new features will be included, here

-are some possible candidates:
+are likely candidates:

 
   - Support for transferring saves between repositories and rewriting
     branches.
 
 
   - Support for transferring saves between repositories and rewriting
     branches.
 

+and these are also under consideration:
+

   - Better VFS performance for large repositories (i.e. fuse, ls,
     web...).
 
   - Incremental indexing via inotify.
 
   - Better VFS performance for large repositories (i.e. fuse, ls,
     web...).
 
   - Incremental indexing via inotify.
 

-  - Support for rm/gc.
-

   - Smarter (and quieter) handling of cross-filesystem metadata.
 
   - Smarter (and quieter) handling of cross-filesystem metadata.
 

+  - Support for more general purpose push/pull of branches, saves, and
+    tags between repositories.  (See the bup-get patch series.)
+

 If you have the time and inclination, please help review patches
 posted to the list, or post your own.  (See "ways to help" below.)
 
 If you have the time and inclination, please help review patches
 posted to the list, or post your own.  (See "ways to help" below.)
 


@@ -54,13 +57,31 @@ incorporating it into master, so reviews are an important way to help.
 We also love a good "Tested-by:" -- the more the merrier.
 
 
 We also love a good "Tested-by:" -- the more the merrier.
 
 

+Testing
+=======
+
+You can run the test suite much more quickly via "make -j test" (as
+compared to "make test"), at the expense of slightly more confusing
+output (interleaved parallel test output), and inaccurate intermediate
+success/failure counts, but the final counts displayed should be
+correct.
+
+Individual non-Python tests can be run via "./wvtest run t/TEST" and
+if you'd like to see all of the test output, you can omit the wvtest
+run wrapper: "t/TEST"
+
+Individual Python tests can be run via "./wvtest run ./wvtest.py
+lib/bup/t/TEST", and as above, you can see all the output by omitting
+the wvtest run wrapper like this: "./wvtest.py lib/bup/t/TEST"
+
+

 Submitting patches
 ==================
 
 As mentioned, all patches should be posted to the mailing list for
 review, and must be "signed off" by the author before official
 inclusion (see ./SIGNED-OFF-BY).  You can create a "signed off" set of
 Submitting patches
 ==================
 
 As mentioned, all patches should be posted to the mailing list for
 review, and must be "signed off" by the author before official
 inclusion (see ./SIGNED-OFF-BY).  You can create a "signed off" set of

-patches in ./pending, ready for submission to the list, like this:
+patches in ./patches, ready for submission to the list, like this:

 
     git format-patch -s -o patches origin/master
 
 
     git format-patch -s -o patches origin/master