C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 04/12/2013 01:36 PM, Julian Foad wrote: >> I'll branch at about 18:30 UTC (less than an hour from now) if all >> still looks well at that time. > > Sounds good.
r1467414: Branch created. r1467415: Trunk version number bumped. r1467428: STATUS file added on branch. >> The releasing guidelines say to create the CHANGES section for 1.8 on >> trunk after branching, but that was done long ago. In fact, we probably >> want to add a CHANGES section for 1.9 soon after branching. > > Yup. r1467432: Added a 1.9.0 section to CHANGES on trunk. >> Do we want to produce a tarball immediately? I'm not clear on this. I >> haven't read up on what to do, nor done it before, but if we do want to >> then I could probably do it this afternoon if it's not too involved, or >> on Monday. Or I'd be happy if someone else wants to do it. > > I got the sense from a prior thread that not many folks care about the > pre-RC stuffs. We know the branch isn't RC-ready, so if we cut a tarball, > it would be "beta1". And then I'd suggest we not cut any more > until we were > ready for "rc1". > > I say, if you (or Ben or anyone else) has the energy and interest and making > a "beta1" tarball, just do it. Folks will either sign the thing or > they won't. :-) OK, I won't do a tarball unless we discuss further and decide we should. - Julian
