[M3devel] Release Engineering: 5.8 --> 5.9? was: Re: release vs. head?

[Tony Hosking]

I think that we are closest now to a release we can be happy with than for some time.  It would be a huge shame not to push this out the door.

On 17 Jan 2010, at 06:38, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:
> 
>> Should we just make a new release branch?
>> Or I keep copying stuff over somewhat selectively?
>>  We do want LONGCARD in the release, I assume.
>> 
>> I'll diff the two trees again, see what varies.
>> Sometimes when I do that I find stuff to take.
>> And take the LONGCARD changes.
> 
> From a release engineering point of view this is more or less
> a nightmare. We cannot make incompatible extensions to the feature
> set after the fourth release candidate.
> 
> The only clean way I'd see to even get the LONGINT changes into the
> next release would be to start anew. Meaning declaring 5.8.4 as
> the latest release and develop 5.9 on the trunk. Of course we'd
> have to carefully merge back any fixes that might be missing on the
> trunk right now.
> 
> That said, I have currently neither the time nor the energy to do all
> that cleanly. I didn't even get round to set up release builds
> on new.elego.de via Hudson in order to cover the FreeBSD4 target
> platform we recently lost in the release due to my home machine's
> complete crash in December. So the release engineering support is not
> in the best of states I must admit.
> 
> I could live with declaring 5.8.RC4 as an intermediate release,
> but somebody really needs to do all the housekeeping of comparing
> and merging branches. And we shouldn't start a new release branch
> until things have settled down.
> 
> Is anybody interested in taking over some of the release engineering
> tasks (including Hudson management and re-targeting to the new release)?
> 
> Please keep in mind that we haven't managed to get out a stable release
> for several years now.
> 
> Olaf
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