5.6: Do it

[Bert Wesarg]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 20:08, Scott Tringali
<scott.tringali at totalviewtech.com> wrote:
> AVKuznetsov wrote:
>
>> In any case that are details. The main must be adopted by active
>> developers
>> and by Scott as the project admin.
>
> OK.  I just made a branch tag for BETA_5_6 right at the top of the mainline.
>  The name is purely for parity with old releases, you don't need to beta if
> you don't want.  We can even release off the branch, that's OK.
Thank you Scott.

>
> If you want to fool around and do some more experimental changes: stay on
> the mainline.
>
> If you want to make stability changes for 5.6 only: do cvs update -r
> BETA_5_6 and commit there.  If there are no changes needed, then the branch
> will just be a no-op.
I suggest that commits to the BETA-5-6 branch must be first in the MAIN branch.

>
> I will hand the keys to file-release to anyone who volunteers it.  You get
> that means you get to clean up the release notes, package up the source,
> etc.  It's up to you if you want to do a source-only release.
I'm for a source only release, but binary contributions are more than welcome.

Bert