Re: Octave 5.2.0 release

[Torsten Lilge]

On Thu, 2019-12-12 at 11:58 +0900, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> On 12/11/19 4:06 AM, Rik wrote:
> > On 12/10/2019 04:38 AM, "Markus Mützel" wrote:
> > > Am 10. Dezember 2019 um 11:58 Uhr schrieb "Kai Torben Ohlhus":
> > > > My personal expectation is no 6.1 release before February 2020
> > > > [3].  But
> > > > as 5.1.0 is already long time ago, I vote for another 5.2.0
> > > > stable
> > > > release before Christmas, followed by efforts to release
> > > > 6.1.0.  On the
> > > > stable branch, there are
> > > > 
> > > >    hg log -r "release-5-1-0:" -b stable | grep "changeset" | wc
> > > > -l
> > > > 
> > > > 104 more or less important changes accumulated over 10 months
> > > > users are
> > > > waiting for.  This stable release does not need that much effort
> > > > [1], as
> > > > it is stable, and I can prepare the stable branch for
> > > > 5.2.0.  Opinions?
> > > I personally don't know how I feel about a 5.2 release. There
> > > probably are bugs in the stable branch that haven't been there in
> > > Octave 5.1 and that have been fixed on the development branch only
> > > (e.g. bug #55908 [1]).
> > > 
> > > We are not many developers. So I don't know whether we shouldn't
> > > better spend our limited time to get the default branch ready
> > > instead of fixing issues on the soon to be deprecated current
> > > stable branch.
> > > 
> > > But I won't hold anyone back if we agree on delaying Octave 6 for
> > > another dot release.
> > 
> > A new stable release should be very easy and thus not distracting
> > for core
> > developers.  I have no objection if we do it, nor any strong leaning
> > to do
> > it.  If it exposes new bugs, they will be fixed by the the 6.1
> > release in
> > another month or so.
> > 
> > --Rik
> > 
> 
> jwe and other developers, what do you think about a stable release?  I
> think to be able to manage most steps of the release by myself, not
> binding additional development power.  Stable is stable, just updating
> dates and version numbers, that's it.  All work remains on Octave 6.1
> beginning of 2020.
> 
> Kai

Kai, thanks for taking care of this. I woul like to vote for a stable
release since there are some important bug fixes for the gui in the
stable branch.

Torsten