From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Stable releases Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:46:35 -0800 Message-ID: <87k61qopok.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> References: <87bqn5n48n.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163987205 16568 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2006 01:46:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 02:46:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlyF6-0001iS-JT for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:46:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlyF5-0007bF-UA for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:46:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlyF3-0007b9-Sy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:46:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlyF3-0007ae-8p for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:46:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlyF3-0007ab-4E for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:46:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [70.85.129.156] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GlyF3-0003Ac-6W for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:46:37 -0500 Original-Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9813390E86; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:46:35 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from raven.defaultvalue.org (raven.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD91340AA; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:46:35 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by raven.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 14888355193; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:46:35 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Neil Jerram In-Reply-To: <87bqn5n48n.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:38:16 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6223 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: > If we followed this, I'm pretty sure the result would be more > frequent stable releases than in the past. I don't see any problem > with that, in fact I think it would be a good thing... but then I've > never prepared a release myself. Is the release process > sufficiently easy and automated that it would allow us to do this? > And what does everyone else think about whether it's a good idea? I think more frequent stable releases are a good idea, though at least right now, there is enough by-hand work involved that I wouldn't want to do it *too* often. Of course I could probably automate things a bit more. [1] Note though, that one thing that is key to making more frequent stable releases easy is careful discipline on the part of anyone committing to the stable branch. If everyone remembers to include the appropriate ChangeLog, NEWS, etc. entries, then there's much less to do at release time. Otherwise, the diff against the last stable release has to be examined more carefully, developers have to be prodded, etc. [1] It might be nice if there were a more automated way to generate the html and text NEWS summaries for the web pages and the list announcements. I suppose I could just have the list announcement point to the web page, but I don't know how much people like having the summary in the message itself. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel