Re: 1.5.6 Release Needs More Eyes

[Rob Browning]

Evan Prodromou <address@hidden> writes:

> I just did a release notification on Freshmeat for 1.5.6, but this
> should probably be a standard part of making new releases, no?

Sounds like a good idea.

I also agree that we could use some more centralized information.  For
example, it would be nice if we could provide inter-release info
somewhere -- right now 1.5.6 is broken wrt threads, but I'm waiting
for the snarfing updates before releasing a new version.

I suppose with some conventions we could handle this with the BUGS
file -- if the bug could be listed in the 1.6 CVS BUGS file but be
marked as fixed, then the BUGS processing script could list it on the
web page as "fixed - pending release" or similar.  That would be quite
handy.

I'd also wondered if we might want to talk about trying out one of the
bug-tracking systems with guile -- for example, I've had a little
experience with bugzilla lately and it seems pretty interesting.  Not
the most polished user-interface, but quite flexible -- though IMO it
really needs an email interface, perhaps one that (unlike Debian's)
requires some kind of special format for submissions (spammers have
started hitting the bug tracker address@hidden addresses lately
:<).

I'm also happy if we'd just like to work with the BUGS files and see
how that works out.  The BUGS files are certainly convenient to edit;
although having separate files for each tree means there's potential
for skew, and it's a bit harder to maintain information for a bug that
applies to both trees.

(If we had enough time to work on it, I think it'd be nice to have all
 the bugs in a postgres DB with both an email interface (via GPG
 signed messages), and an SSL web interface.  Then we could have all
 the per-release severity levels, status flags, summary lists,
 etc. that we could ever want, and we could probably do all the coding
 from guile via guile-pg or similar.)

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Rob Browning
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