2016-04-15 6:32 GMT-06:00 Daniel Veillard <veill...@redhat.com>: > Hi everbody, > > It's both too easy to let things slip and very painful to procrastinate, > so to limit both and try to make the audience happier, I have decided to > switch libxml2 and libxslt to time based releases. At the tune of 2 releases > per year, considering the stability of the code I think it's reasonable. > For simplicity I will release both on the same day. > > So what does that mean ? > > - that libxml2-2.9.4 should be out on May 20 > - that libxslt-1.1.29 should be out on May 20 > - that there should be a release candidate 1 around May 1st for both of > them then an RC2 around the 10th May and a push on the 20 > - that if you have a patch posted to either list or bugzilla which wasn't > commented on or applied, it's fine and recommended to pester me with > a private email (might be good to rebase in case that's a really old one) > - if we are getting close to May 1st and your patch isn't in, raise the > point here, me and Nick Wellnhofer on the XSLT side will make sure they > go in. > - if after May 1st there hasn't been an RC1 people should complain here > in case I forgot my promise (and same for RC2 and final) > - and around Nov 1st watch for another cycle > > I really hope this works, that's what I did for my other project (libvirt > but with a 1 month cadence) and this really improves everybody's life! > > So send those requests (Patrick Monnerat and Alex Henrie, no need to send > again now) for patch needing processing,
Thanks. I agree that time-based releases make sense for a project like this. -Alex _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
