[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-PSC] RFC 4: Release procedure

[Moritz Lennert]

On 01/03/15 19:02, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Scott Mitchell <smitch at me.com> wrote:
>>> Agreed, and I like Markus’ idea of testing it on an upcoming release.
>>
>> (just a low priority comment here)
>>
>> While doing so it turns out that one week between RC2 and final is a bit short.
>> And some urgent fixes came in only during the RC procedure. We need to
>> [add] a phrase if this requires a new RC (not this time though!) or not
>> or depends.
>
> Overall, we got the release out :-)
> Any opinions on above remaining issue?

I think that with time we will get better at this procedure and the one 
week limit should be ok, but I have no objections to add a phrase to 
step 6 such as

"A final, concerted bug squashing effort by all developers of no more 
than one week. During that same time the release announcement is 
drafted. If an important bug is discovered for which a fix needs some 
more testing, an RC3 can exceptionally be published, with another week 
of testing before final release."

Moritz