Hi, mostly because of the ugly DSA-2228, I'd like us to prepare Tails 0.7.2 point-release. Yeah, already.
[0] http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2228 Only one relevant bugfix was cherry-picked into the stable maintenance branch already: commit f833fd7 "Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning." I think we should release Tails 0.7.2 soon from the current stable branch's content, mostly to get updated packages from the Debian archive. I think this could happen this week without putting that much effort in it. Cherry-picking more (not-that-much tested) improvements from devel into stable would IMHO delay the release by a great lot (e.g. require preparing and uploading a ~rc1), so I'd rather to avoid it. Also, while we've been cherry-picking important fixes from devel into {stable, testing} since 0.7 was released (3 months ago, already!), other great stuff, such as the accessibility tools installation, has been waiting in devel since then. I think the current stable..devel delta is enough of a justification to stop diverging and start preparing 0.8. => Proposal: 1. Release 0.7.2 from current stable maintenance branch *soon* (if I missed one or a few commits that safely fix important bugs, please quickly raise your hand). 2. Start thinking of releasing 0.8, i.e. enter pre-freeze time, i.e. time to: - report that annoying 0.7.x bug that you've been meaning to report for weeks ;) - test the great new features and make them robust enough to be shipped (I'm for example thinking of bridges support) - implement the new feature you want to push into 0.8.2 (preferably in a topic branch to ease release management, as unfinished / unpolished stuff in devel is a pain to deal with at release time); e.g. it seems like we could eventually replace onboard with something better: Florence. => aiming at a freeze that would start in 3 weeks (Tuesday, June 7th) What do you think? Bye, -- intrigeri <[email protected]> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. | This way, you achieve everything. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://boum.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev
