Re: preparing for 2.3b

[Joel E. Denny]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Akim Demaille wrote:

>  > Perhaps we can go ahead and start figuring this out, and Paul can chime in 
>  > if he has time.  Looking back at the 2.3a release, I gather that this is 
>  > what needs to be done:
> 
>  > 1. Change 2.3a+ to 2.3b in NEWS and configure.ac, and set the release date 
>  > in NEWS.
> 
>  > 2. make dist, get someone to generate a sig, and then post the tarball and 
>  > sig to:
> 
>  >   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/
> 
> I don't remember either :(  If he has some time, maybe Alexandre can
> help here, he ran the procedure more recently than I did.  I had a
> quick look on Savannah.gnu.org, but I found nothing.

I found this:

  http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Automated-FTP-Uploads

My guess is that I am not in the list of people authorized to upload Bison 
releases.  Might you be?

>  > 3. Send a message similar to:
> 
>  >   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2006-09/msg00012.html
> 
>  > to these lists: address@hidden, address@hidden, 
>  > address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  > Sound right to you?
> 
> Yes, perfect!

Thanks for looking it over.

> Have a close look at Makefile.maint, it contains quite some targets to
> help releases.  "make beta".  I don't know how rusty this is :(

It breaks for me.  "make beta" seems to be about the same as "make alpha".  
Here's a message from Paul Eggert saying "make alpha" is not maintained:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2006-12/msg00095.html

I see no significant changes to Makefile.maint mentioned by cvs log since 
then.