On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:30:46PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Joe Buck wrote: > > > I suggest just letting 4.3.0 out into the world (finish the release > > process), and mention the caveat about the cld issue in the announcement. > > We would then have time to decide whether to do a quick 4.3.0.1, or not. > > It certainly does need finishing (e.g. the Bugzilla parts of > releasing.html). I think we can just do an early 4.3.1 with whatever > other fixes are ready on the branch rather than making a special 4.3.0.1; > it's not as if 4.3.0 (or any .0 release) is going to be a widely deployed > stable release with people wanting one fix and just that one fix.
Sounds good to me; certainly as soon as 4.3.0 gets out and gets wider testing, people will find things. In the past we only used the 4th digit for paper-bag issues (like failure to bootstrap on a major platform or broken release tarballs).