Hello Jonathon. On 02.01.19 10:38, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a quick question who is taking care of the next release since Stefan > has stepped down? I am willing to setup if necessary. Do we have a time line > for the next release?
Sorry for the delay. I was on vacation until this week. A few people offered to help with a release but none stepped up to take the full lead on the next one. Maybe its easier if I will be part of the team so I can transfer the knowledge more smoothly instead of dropping things? With a team of other willing to work towards regular releases I am ok to spend some time on working on this as well. To get time based releases back into our DNA I think that we should get one out again soon to get into the habit again of doing it. It should not wait on specific features and we need to thing about the time between releases after it again (one every 3 months seems to much. Maybe every 4 or 5 months? we need to discuss this). I am going to put together a release schedule proposal and sent it to the list as first step. In terms of splitting the load I would appreciate it if you could get yourself familiar with my notes on how I did the releases. https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/release_procedure/ Read through it and try to generate a tarball locally to see if that works for you. If you find unclear parts feel free to correct the wiki or ask. More than likely there are parts in it that make sense to me but nobody else. :-) The second big step towards a release is to go through all of the issue report we have open and see if they have categories assigned. Making sure to mark the important ones as showstopper (but not every pet peave bug should be listed there). Once we have this we can talk how to prepare the work items mails I have been sending out on a regular basis and how people can help with this. As a sidenote: this would be our last autotools based release. That means the official release tarballs will be generated with the autotools build system. In parallel we will work on getting a tarball generated with meson out to allow packagers and testers to get used to it and report problems to us. Once 1.22 is out we would go ahead and remove autotools support from the tree to focus on meson only forward and reduce the maintenance burden we currently have with two build systems. regards Stefan Schmidt _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
