Re: Release Plan

[ewl+rdiffbackup]

Hi Arrigo,

any help is welcome. Patrick started to work on an Appveyor setup but he 
seems to be busy, so if you want to take over the issue/branch [1] and 
finish the work, drop a note in the issue to give Patrick a chance to 
react, but from my point of view, you're welcome!

Also under `tools/windows` there is a build setup based on a Vagrant VM 
and Ansible, so feel free to take the best of all worlds (even if you 
don't "speak" Ansible, the approach should be obvious from reading 
through the yaml files and the documentation).

Thanks, Eric

[1] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/105



On 19/11/2019 10:54, Arrigo Marchiori wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:29:10PM +0000, EricZolf wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > good question, let me try to summarize the current state:
> >
> > - migration to Python 3 is finished, there are no  known regressions.
> > - we've fixed a fair amount of smaller bugs and cleaned the repo structure
> > - testing on Linux is done automatically and regularly so that I'm quite 
> > confident about the quality of the code on this platform
> > - testing on Windows would need more love - anybody is welcome to test who can 
> > compile rdiff-backup
>
> I developed a small build system:
> https://github.com/ardovm/rdiff-backup-build
> that makes an self-contained EXE file (as did previous stable
> releases) starting from the sources of librsync and rdiff-backup.
>
> It can also make self-contained binaries for Linux, and possibly other
> Unix-based systems (to be tested).
>
> Contributions, comments etc. are of course welcome.
>
> [...]
> > Writing these lines, I realise that I should try to generate a beta release 
> > (even if only manually) so that people can more easily test, without the 
> > trouble of compiling the code.
>
> I was also expecting this. IMHO it is better to have a release tag,
> alpha- or beta- is ok, but it must have a name, that we will be able
> to refer to in bug reports etc.
>
> Once we have the tag, I could help generating the binaries, if you
> think it would be useful.
>
> Best regards,