On 7/27/07, Kieran P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I would like to do a longer release candidate. Rather than actually doing > a release, we will do the announcements[snip] > Ok. Sounds good. There is only two more things to do before RC1 can be > released. http://globulation2.org/wiki/Things_to_do_before_1.0.0 >
I'm not talking about your 1.0 release candidates, for now it will remain with the Alpha release series. We can give our series a new name, perhaps go with "Gamma" or "Upsilon" or maybe even "Zeta" or another greek character in order to move into a 0.9.x release stage, but not into 1.0 releases. Those being > * scons needs to have "scons install" and the files in a folder in the tar > (not on the tar root) before releasing. Dont worry about the other things. > Those two are important and should be done before anything else. > * old maps with old map header need to be ignored in all situations that > would cause a crash, freeze, or any other problems (like custom games being > the main one, followed by load game and map editor). > All the maps that I have access to (the original maps that my system downloads) are all ignored properly, so I don't know what you are talking about. Also, we probably don't need a branch for the RC, rather, branch of any new > work. Example, between RC1 and RC2, there will be bug fixes and a few new > features. those new features should be in a branch (like normal) while bug > fixed remain in master. That way, we can tell people the RC is on master, so > that when they go to get it, any bugs reported and fixed wont show up for > them (so we wont get duplicate reports!). > A branch for the release candidate is quite critical to allow for other work to continue, but to maintain the release-candidates feature freeze. It makes more sense to me to have master as the bug fixed RC branch :P > Then we wouldn't easily be able to do a feature freeze on this longer RC. >I will be prepared to do the release candidate within a couple of days, > after I clear up all known bugs. > > Sounds good. Be sure to do those two things listed above ;) > > Regards > Kieran > > _______________________________________________ > glob2-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel > > -- Really. I'm not lieing. Bradley Arsenault.
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