Re: couple notes about post-2.71 branch management

2021-02-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 8:06 PM Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2021-01-29, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > Finally, to help us keep the development series on branch and trunk > > straight, I tagged the "post-release administrivia" commit on the > > trunk as v2.72a and on the branch as v2.72b. This will make th

Re: couple notes about post-2.71 branch management

2021-02-02 Thread Nick Bowler
Hi Zack, On 2021-01-29, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Finally, to help us keep the development series on branch and trunk > straight, I tagged the "post-release administrivia" commit on the > trunk as v2.72a and on the branch as v2.72b. This will make the > output of autoconf --version be obviously dif

couple notes about post-2.71 branch management

2021-01-29 Thread Zack Weinberg
2.71 is out. I presume that we will get more high-priority bug reports, and I tentatively plan to make a 2.72 release, also from branch-2.70, in another two or three months. This will not be limited to strict bugfixes; new features that address specific user requests in a low-risk fashion are als