Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0

[David Bateman]

Thomas Weber wrote:
> Am Montag, den 08.10.2007, 12:34 +0200 schrieb Soren Hauberg:
>   
>> John W. Eaton skrev:
>>     
>>> On  7-Oct-2007, Soren Hauberg wrote:
>>>
>>> | So, what does that mean? Essentially we have to make some 3.0 release 
>>> | candidate release about a week before 3.0 is actually released. 
>>>
>>> That's essentially what 2.9.14 was supposed to be, and (RSN) 2.9.15,
>>> etc.  It's just that we keep finding things to fix or tweak.
>>>       
>> What I was suggesting was really to make a release at some point. Call 
>> the a release candidate. And if nothing big comes up in the following 
>> week release that. Currently it seems like we keep on fixing bugs, and 
>> that nobody really knows when 3.0 is released. This isn't helpful to 
>> people who want to create binary distribution. If we want binary 
>> distributions on the day of the release, then we need to create an 
>> unofficial release sometime before the actual release. This is what I 
>> meant with a release candidate.
>>
>> Did that make sense?
>>     
>
> Are there objections to start with this process *now*? Bringing a
> package with a new name into Debian can easily take more than a week[1].
> So, we would like to package 2.9.14 as release candidate now, just to
> have a package with the name octave3.0.
>
> Objections?
>
> [1] It needs manual intervention outside the realm of packagers.
>
>       Thomas
>   
Does a RC release have to have a name like 3.0RC1? Can't we just say
that 2.9.15 is 3.0RC1? Is that sufficient for Debian?

D.


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