5.6 beta status

[TK Soh]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:09 AM, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I presume the mercrual repo will help ease the merging work of
bringing the fixes from main to beta branch, even if it still have to
ported back to CVS.