5.6 beta status

[TK Soh]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:34, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I notice a BETA-5-6 branch in Berg Wesarg's repo created about a year
>> ago, but they seemed to be no plan to release it. Just wondering
>> what's the development/background on this.
> Joerg puts it in a nutshell. We need also to bring over fixes from
> MAIN to the BETA branch. I can handle this. The rest of the release
> procedure would be new new me.

Is binary release being the issue here? If not, then it should be
limited to just updating the release note and make the annoucement
right? That said, I never done a release, so this also new (and old
;-) today to me.