[elinks-dev] ELinks 0.12 release plans

[Jonas Fonseca]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki.fi> wrote Fri, Jul 20, 2007:
> Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki.fi> writes:
> 
> > The bugs blocking the ELinks 0.12.0 release are listed here:
> > http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=0.12-M1&target_milestone=0.12-M2&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
> >
> > I think we should release 0.12pre1 when all the bugs targeted for
> > 0.12-M1 have been fixed.  Then people would update translations
> > and test ELinks on various operating systems while we fix the
> > 0.12-M2 bugs.  Next, we'd release 0.12rc1, wait for reports,
> > document the operating systems on which it was tested, release
> > 0.12.0 with minimal changes, and open 0.13.GIT.  That is, if the
> > maintainer agrees.
> 
> I created an elinks-0.12 branch on 2007-04-22, and changed the
> version number of master to 0.13.GIT.  I hoped that someone else
> would then add some of Witek's new features to 0.13.GIT while I'd
> fix 0.12-M1 bugs in 0.12.GIT.  Unfortunately, there has been
> little activity in 0.13.GIT, apart from occasional merges from
> 0.12.GIT.
> 
> Now, only bug 620 remains for 0.12-M1.  And Witek has already
> fixed it in his branch, so it seems we could release 0.12pre1
> next week.  That version we could then also submit to the
> Translation Project, which likes stable URLs for packages:
> http://translationproject.org/html/maintainers.html
> 
> After 0.12pre1, we'd fix the 0.12-M2 bugs, release 0.12rc1,
> etc. as quoted above.  Now though, instead of opening 0.13.GIT,
> we'd merge the changes to the existing 0.13.GIT.
> 
> Fonseca, do you accept this plan?

Sounds good to me, although maybe I shouldn't be counted in as part of
it. I haven't been very involved lately and do not think I will have the
time to be more involved. I would feel more comfortable giving up the
maintainership at this point. At least for anything but 0.11 ...

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Jonas Fonseca