From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Stable releases Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:39:06 +0000 Message-ID: <87r6vweayt.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87bqn5n48n.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87k61qopok.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164145223 31033 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2006 21:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 22:40:18 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 1GmdLZ-0005BY-J7 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:40:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmdLY-0003n6-Rm for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmdLR-0003jq-G6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:39:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmdLP-0003fD-9O for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmdLO-0003f5-St for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GmdLO-0004xY-9V for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GmdLM-0004JB-Jh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:39:52 -0500 Original-Received: from laruns (host86-145-51-69.range86-145.btcentralplus.com [86.145.51.69]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DC940B2C6; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:39:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B0070367; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:39:07 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <87k61qopok.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:46:35 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) 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:6230 Archived-At: Rob Browning writes: > 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] I'd like to help if I can with automating things. Is the release process documented somewhere so I can begin to get an idea of what's involved? > 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. Yes, absolutely. I think a large part of the problem for 1.8.1, however, was that we weren't sure what the organization and format of NEWS should be. Once we're decided on that, I think it would be easier to put in entries for the diffs. > [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. I'm sure we should be able to automate format stuff. NEWS is in text anyway, so doesn't this just mean that we need text -> html for the webpage? Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel