[M3devel] HEADS UP: release_CM3_5_8_RC2 / code freeze

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

> How does one checkout, update or commit to RC2 and beyond RC2?

No changes here. I'd just like to avoid branching for the release,
and concentrate work on it.

> There is still maybe the formsedit crash. I'll verify soon.
>
> Ideally we get to a situation in which distributions are built every  
>  day and what we ship is merely picked among them. I need to ever  
> get  Tinderbox working and under cron or in a loop.
>
> I also wonder if we should go back to 5.7.something, since we burned  
>  through 5.7 fairly fast.

Please, let's just provide one stable official release, and not confuse
anybody by using old version numbers.

Olaf

> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:31:40 +0200
>> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> CC: m3-support at elego.de
>> Subject: [M3devel] HEADS UP: release_CM3_5_8_RC2 / code freeze
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently tagging the source base with release_CM3_5_8_RC2.
>> The reported compiler vesion will be d5.8.2 for this RC.
>> There seems to be a neverending stream of commits, which makes
>> it quite difficult to choose a good time to do this, but I hope
>> that Tinderbox will show no major problems with the tagged sources.
>>
>> I'd like everybody for the next weeks to postpone their functional
>> changes and concentrate on testing and fixing bugs that are found
>> or already known. If anybody knows of any problems with the current
>> tag we can still move it in places _before_ we build any release
>> archives. Tagging the whole repository is a quite costly operation
>> in CVS.
>>
>> To summarize:
>>
>> o refrain from functional changes
>> o report and correct bugs
>> o don't build any distribution archives until we've agreed we've
>> tagged a good source set
>>
>> I'll perform some testing myself and try to prepare a draft for the
>> release notes (a lot of changes occured in the recent years) within the
>> next days.
>>
>> Thanks for your patience and your contribution,
>>
>> Olaf
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Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH
                Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany
phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96  mobile: +49 177 2345 869  fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95
    http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin
Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194