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

[Helena Mitasova]

I agree with the suggested modification by Moritz,

Helena

Helena Mitasova
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On Mar 3, 2015, at 3:31 AM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> 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
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