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Re: GNUstep releases this month?
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Fred Kiefer |
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Re: GNUstep releases this month? |
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Sat, 16 Jan 2021 20:50:43 +0100 |
I updated the required files and also increased the version number in both gui
and back. I think we normally do this right after a release, but this time I
forgot about it. So for these two modules we are theoretically ready for a
release.
Cheers,
Fred
> Am 14.01.2021 um 20:13 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net>:
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> thanks for a quick reply!
>
> I suspect that's where the difference between soft- and hard-freeze
> kicks in, but Yavor can maybe provide some insight in this regard.
>
> If I get the green lights from other maintainers, I can cut releases next
> week.
>
> If a maintainer wishes me to release and upload anything that is not
> included in the usual batch of releases on ftp.gnu.org, let me know
> and I can try pushing that out as well.
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 6:27 PM Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ivan,
>>
>> great that you remind us! The problem at the moment is that there is a know
>> problem for 64bit big endian systems in gui (actually a rather long standing
>> issue) and even two suitable solutions for it. But we haven’t decided which
>> solution to prefer. Either we reach a consensus quickly and deploy the
>> chosen solution to all affected classes or we release with this know issue.
>> This sounds worse than it is. We had the issue for a few years and releases
>> already and nobody noticed.
>>
>> Apart from that I promise to bring the release notes of gui and back up to
>> date over the weekend.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Fred
>>
>>> Am 14.01.2021 um 18:40 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net>:
>>>
>>> Hi maintainers et al!
>>>
>>> What's the status of our individual projects? Should I plan on cutting
>>> the releases this or the next weekend?
>>>
>>> Debian is soft-freezing on 2021-02-12.
>>> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBullseye
>>>
>>> I'd like to ask maintainers who are interested in a release happening
>>> to please update the release documentation (see my commits from
>>> just-before-the-previous-release). Obviously, there's no need to
>>> update anything that's automatically generated.
>>>
>>> The less time I need to spend on producing the release notes by
>>> reading through the commits and trying to piece together a story, the
>>> easier it is to make the release, validate it builds, sign it, upload
>>> it, prepare the signed emails for sending to GNU announcements, etc. I
>>> am happy to review maintainers' (or other volunteers') PRs updating
>>> the docs. If the docs are not updated, I am still ok writing the
>>> updates myself, it might just be messy.
>>>
>>> The faster we can cut a release, the higher the chance that there's
>>> enough time for Debian package maintainers to get the package through
>>> the bureaucracy and into the bullseye archives.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Ivan Vučica, 2021/01/18
- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Fred Kiefer, 2021/01/18
- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Ivan Vučica, 2021/01/18
- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2021/01/19
- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Riccardo Mottola, 2021/01/19
- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Ivan Vučica, 2021/01/19
- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Sergii Stoian, 2021/01/19
- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Riccardo Mottola, 2021/01/20
- Re: GNUstep releases this month?, Fred Kiefer, 2021/01/20