Re: Release process thoughts

["Tad Marko" <tad tadland net>]

Perhaps frequent n.nn-rc-n releases? Mozilla and the Linux kernel seem to
make good use of the release candidate (rc) release system.

Tad

>
> Looking over the release mail, I agree with Alan that we should try to
> get more frequent releases.  We have the "release early" thing down, but
> we also need to "release often".  However, we should certainly avoid the
> disasters of hasty releases in 0.86, 0.88.1, 0.90.  We should probably
> in the future make a CVS branch when we start a release cycle, so
> development can continue while a release is being tested.  While it will
> take a little more effort to keep the two versions in reasonable sync,
> we cannot afford to spend month and a half out of seven months just on
> release.  It may well enough up with a release cycle almost continually
> in progress, as
> improvements done during the previous cycle might be enough to start the
> next cycle immediately.  It may be a good idea to have one person almost
> permanently in charge of release handling.
>
> -Lars
>
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