Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> writes: > I'm personally generally in favour of moving the release process > entirely to ELPA!
Ditto. > On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 at 14:17, Arash Esbati <ar...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> • Archive current master as auctex-13, and keep main as default branch. >> This means that every commit generates a new release on ELPA-devel. >> • Archive current master as auctex-13, and introduce a new intermediate >> default branch, say develop or some such. And then merge into main on >> a regular basis. > > My only comment is that I think it'd still be valuable to keep having > stable releases (published through ELPA) every now and then, just as > it is now, and not go full "every commit is a release" mode. That's already the case. Every pushed commit on the main branch [1] results in a new release in the GNU-devel ELPA repository for the adventurous users and every change in the Version header results in a release in the stable GNU ELPA repository. Of course, if major changes are to be made, one can still split a new feature branch off main where changes have no effect on what's published until they are done and merged back to main. > For example proper releases are useful to take the time to summarise > notable changes (git log is good for developers, but not as much for > end users), and in particular better explain what to do with breaking > changes, when they happen. And in general I think downstream > packagers tend to prefer "stable releases" to "pick a random commit" > when given the choice. Arash has already started writing a proper user-centric for micro releases in NEWS.org on the main branch. That's also visible already on the ELPA auctex page: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/auctex.html (I just saw that we changed the "[Unreleased]" heading to "[14.0.6] - 2024-06-30" after publishing 14.0.6. A chance to improve next time. :-)) Bye, Tassilo [1] Actually, not every commit or every push creates a release but there's some cron job on the ELPA machine that pulls every 6 (?) hours, checks if the branch changed, and creates a new release if so.
