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BTW, I don't think there's a need to redo a new tarball.  Once
the tarball's out there (FSVO "out"), a point of no return has
been reached, and I don't think the bug is *that* urgent.

- --j.

Michael Parker writes:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:43:37PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> > 
> > And strongly +1 on "votes on the list *only*".  The IRC channel is
> > nice, but we're not all there ;)
> > 
> 
> I think it's a shame that IRC has become less useful for developers.
> It used to be a very good tool for everyone.  Evidently Daniel hasn't
> been able to send his vote to the list, here is a small transcript
> from IRC:
> [17:21:51] <Herk> quinlan: so +1?
> [17:32:32] <quinlan> yeah, +1
> [17:32:54] <Herk> quinlan: can you mail dev, just to make it official
> 
> Once 3 or more +1 votes have been received for a release any decision
> for ultimate release lies with the release manager.  There is no
> mandated soak time, if the release is ready it should go.
> 
> I agree, that in most cases, we should allow 24 hrs or so for someone
> to register a veto on a patch before applying it to the stable
> branch.  That obviously doesn't always happen.  I make sure to do that
> for any patches of mine that might be controversial or if I'm unsure
> for any reason.
> 
> We are talking about a bug that came in after the 3.0.3 release had
> been built and made public (not in an official directory, but public
> non the less).  So moving forward and putting anything into the stable
> branch will entail a bump in the release version for a release.
> 
> 3.0.3 has not been officially released, but there is a tarball in the
> wild that claims it is 3.0.3.  The only steps I've taken thus far are
> to move things over to dist so the Apache mirror system can begin
> syncing the release out to the various mirrors.
> 
> I'm willing to scrap 3.0.3 all together and move on to 3.0.4, afterall
> the whole point of this exercise is to get something out there and
> stable.  However, please keep in mind when it comes to release, we not
> only need to get things built and tested, but we should allow time for
> tarballs to sync out to mirror sites before announcing.  For
> maintenance releases this is pretty easy because we're dealing with a
> fairly stable set of code.
> 
> We're in no different place than if the release had received no +1
> votes so we might as well move forward, bump the release num, declare
> 3.0.3 dead and get a nice stable 3.0.4 out the door.
> 
> Michael
> 
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