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Re: Release Autoconf 2.70
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Release Autoconf 2.70 |
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Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:11:43 -0600 |
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On 07/21/2016 12:25 AM, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> On 21 July 2016 at 00:06, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 07/20/2016 11:21 AM, Craig Andrews wrote:
>>>
>>> what's
>>> blocking a release?
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>> Lack of free time from someone with commit rights.
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> How much time it takes to make a release? For the outsider there's
> not many obviously needed steps that take a lot of time. Does making a
> RC take as much time as full release, or could we have RC for testing
> both autoconf and the build systems of projects that use it?
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The biggest time sink is digging through the mail archives to ensure
that all posted patches that are still relevant have been applied; I
know that there is a big body of work for detecting compiler warnings
that needs to be reviewed and incorporated.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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