Re: Next GNUstep release

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Ivan,

is it OK to go ahead with the release as planed?
I just provide short descriptions of the changes in gui and back in the
news-texi files. Everybody that contributed in the last year should have
a short look to see whether I missed something or improve the description.
@Richard could you do the same for base? Or if you don't have the time I
might do that as well, just tell me.
@Niels could you handle "make"?

I want to thank you all for the great contributions over the last year
and hope we get these out really soon.

Cheers,
Fred


Am 28.02.20 um 00:37 schrieb Ivan Vučica:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:09 AM Fred Kiefer <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> And most importantly, Ivan will you have time to cut all these
>> releases? Of course we could move that point around a week or two
>> if that date fits better
>
> I've only now seen this.
>
> This is ok and please coordinate with me closer to the release date.
> It's nearly zero effort for me if maintainers keep up to date
> Documentation/news.texi and other files you can see me updating by
> hand just before release. Most time-consuming is a) sorting out
> through 'what changed' and revising news.texi et al, b) getting the
> GPG signing key to work, c) coordinating what version we should have
> actually bumped to because we might break Debian automated checks
> etc.
>
> I'm ok doing all these, but more I have to do, more planning do I
> have to put into dedicating huge blocks of time to a release.
>
> (Note, having package maintainers and distro packaging maintainers
> online -- preferably in a realtime groupchat e.g. on IRC -- when
> cutting a release would not be a bad thing. This means we can sort
> out and test any issues within hours rather than days.)
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:10 PM Riccardo Mottola
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> before a release, I would like these issues to find a solution.
>>
>> - understand why we don't work properly on my ThinkPad T23 neither
>> with the Cairo nor with the xlib backend with similar issues
>
> Did you date when things broke and at what change?
>
> I'm afraid that when I'm cutting a release I only use a single
> platform (Ubuntu or Debian amd64 with libobjc2 and clang) with
> usually one or two backend configs (usually cairo). Sometimes I build
> with GCC or with GCC runtime. I don't have other environments around,
> including a working environment on Windows.
>
> I don't know what should be release blockers, I'm leaving that to
> individual package maintainers.
>
>> - understand/fix/workaround the libobjc2 which impede me to test
>> current GNUstep on any FreeBSD 11.x and 12.x I currently have on
>> i386 and amd64
>
> Honestly, I would have expected that libobjc2 FreeBSD should work
> out of the box given David is/was working on FreeBSD...
>