Who needs to sign off to do the release? Is that only Eli or Stefan?
On Mar 18, 2023 at 3:08 PM -0600, Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>, wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 2:30 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > The latest RC I see at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-28
> > > > > is RC1, dated 2023-02-19.
>
> [snip]
> >
> > Duh. For some reason I was seeing the "rc1" in the name
> > and not noticing the "28.3" in the name. Thx.
>
> Yay, glad that was it. I appreciate that you are trying these out.
>
> FTR, the prerelease tarball Stephen make creates Emacs 28.3. That's
> slightly different from what I think of as normal but might work to
> our advantage.
>
> The only part of the file names I thought about, particularly, was
> deciding to append "-rc1" to the base names for this set. The base
> names are generally derived from how Emacs built from the tarball
> self-identifies. In particular, "nsi" script (which creates the
> self-installer) is fairly fussy about how we name the folder
> containing Emacs as produced by "make install"; I'd have had various
> stuff to figure out I'd wanted to publish this as 28.2.90 (even
> assuming I'm correct that would have been a more typical version
> identifier for prerelease we're discussing, which I'm not quite ready
> to).
>
> Usually, the pre-release tarballs I've worked with create Emacs
> versioned as X.Y.Z, with "X" being the relevant major version, "Y"
> being the last stable minor version of that major version (or zero if,
> e.g. the prerelease will become X.1), and "Z" being 90 + (count of
> prior pre-release tarballs published).
>
> In any case, even if I have *that* hopelessly (or quite trivally)
> wrong, even aside how the Windows binaries are named, I think there
> may be a practical upshot:
>
> Stephen and I can potentially republish the same tarballs to the other
> site to release Emacs 28.3, effectively turning the pre-release into
> the release.
>
> Do we agree that would work? And that we are ready? Are there
> ancillary changes, such as updating online manuals[0]?
>
> Eli?
>
> [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/