Re: [Denemo-devel] Release 1.1

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 10:07 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> I have uploaded a mingw binary. This one passes the wine test!

I have downloaded and tested this - all looks good.
If there are no objections I think we should upload the tarball to
ftp.gnu.org and announce the release.

Thanks to everyone who has helped.

Richard


> Jeremiah
> 
> On Nov 25, 2013 10:42 AM, "Jeremiah Benham"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         Ok. I have uploaded a 1.1.0 tarball. It compiled fine for me.
>         
>         Jeremiah
>         
>         On Nov 24, 2013 8:31 AM, "Richard Shann"
>         <address@hidden> wrote:
>                 On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 15:07 +0100, Éloi Rivard wrote:
>                 > Ok, I though keeping archives was important.
>                 > This is done, the branch name is release-1.1.0
>                 Great!
>                 I have downloaded the release-1.1.0 branch and built
>                 it as a separate
>                 user. It appears to be in working order - Jeremiah can
>                 you create the
>                 candidate release tarball from this for sanity
>                 checking?
>                 
>                 Richard
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 >
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > 2013/11/24 Richard Shann <address@hidden>
>                 >         On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 23:56 +0100, Éloi
>                 Rivard wrote:
>                 >         > A git tag points on one commit, no matter
>                 on which branch it
>                 >         is
>                 >         > (master or anything else).
>                 >         >
>                 >         > Branches to points to one commit, not a
>                 "set", but the
>                 >         difference is
>                 >         > that when you append a new commit, the
>                 branch points to the
>                 >         newer
>                 >         > commit.
>                 >         >
>                 >         > When you consider a commit, you also
>                 consider its parents,
>                 >         that is
>                 >         > what we feel we deal with "sets" of
>                 commits.
>                 >         >
>                 >         >
>                 >         > Since you don't seem very cumfortable with
>                 tags: I can
>                 >         propose you
>                 >         > another workflow:
>                 >
>                 >
>                 >         I suggest we make things much simpler: when
>                 we want to make a
>                 >         release we
>                 >         create a branch labelled stable-i.j.k as
>                 before, and when the
>                 >         translations are in (and any fixes needed
>                 during testing) we
>                 >         create the
>                 >         final candidate tarball. Once this is tested
>                 we upload to
>                 >         ftp.gnu.org
>                 >         and announce the release. Then we delete the
>                 branch.
>                 >
>                 >         The reasoning is simple: we are not a
>                 library that needs to
>                 >         maintain
>                 >         more than one version. We will never issue a
>                 release based on
>                 >         an old
>                 >         release rather than based on master. And,
>                 this is a process we
>                 >         already
>                 >         know how to do - we are severely short of
>                 resource for doing
>                 >         infrastructure.
>                 >
>                 >         (Of course, we can transform the release
>                 branch into a tag if
>                 >         folk
>                 >         prefer and someone knows how ...)
>                 >
>                 >         If this is acceptable could someone who
>                 knows how create the
>                 >         branch
>                 >         stable-1.1.0 so that we can start testing.
>                 >
>                 >         Richard
>                 >
>                 >
>                 >
>                 >
>                 >
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > --
>                 > Éloi Rivard - address@hidden
>                 >
>                 > « On perd plus à être indécis qu'à se tromper. »
>                 >
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