On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:53:47 +0000 Stefan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello. > > On 12/04/2013 04:28 PM, Michael Blumenkrantz wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:44:04 +0000 > > Stefan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hello. > >> > >> Apparently I'm not only the whip cracker for 1.9 but also the release > >> monkey for 1.8.x :) > >> > >> Raster did the emergency efl 1.8.1 but from now on I will take over. > >> Lets see how that goes. ;) > >> > >> It seems all 1.8 branches have accumulated enough fixes already to allow > > > >> for a 1.8.x release on Friday. If you have backported your _tested_ > >> important fixes to the stable branch consider yourself a good person. > >> > >> If know anything else that needs backporting please do so by Thursday > >> evening. I don't want last minutes commits just a second before the > > release. > >> > >> To be totally honest with you folks this is my first release in the e > >> world so it seems very likely that I screw something up. To avoid this > >> as much as possible I put together what I heard about doing a release > >> here on a new wiki page: > >> > >> https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/release_procedure/ > >> > >> This is what I gathered from others and completed by my own thoughts. > >> Everyone who did a release here before please look over it and fix it as > > > >> needed or reply here with suggestions. If we have other resources > >> describing the procedure do not hesitate to point them out to me! > >> > >> regards > >> Stefan Schmidt > >> > > > > Not sure if you're subscribed to this list (enlightenment-release), but if > > you aren't, you should be. > > This was the obvious thing I forgot. :) Will join from my private > address and I also joined the #erelease channel. > > > Release tarball links should ALWAYS pass through this list ~24 hours > > before you do the announcement. This gives people who do packaging some > > time to test the builds and report any issues, which will ensure that we > > don't have a case of the 1.8.1s again. > > I fully agree on the idea. I will see how that influences my schedule > for the first release. > > regards > Stefan Schmidt > > You can always push the release back a day, but you can't pull a failure release back in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Enlightenment-release mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-release
