Re: Releases

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On 30 Dec 2000, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> What kind of release thing should we be doing these days?  Should
> there be a new Gnus 5.8?  I could just check out the last 5.8 before
> we went to o0-1 and release that, but, er, would that be a thing to
> do?

What do you think about releasing a 5.8.8 which is as similar as
possible to 5.9?  This way people without Emacs 21 can get the most
recent `stable' Gnus.

But you could leave in everything which was removed from 5.9, I
guess.  Hm.  Maybe this would be an approach:

Create a patch of the differences between 5.8.7 and 5.9 and delete
from this patch everything which deletes features, such as the s/mime
stuff and so on.  Then, apply this patch to 5.8.7, giving 5.8.8.

What do you think about this?

Another thought is: right now, it seems that people haven't really
added features to ognus like crazy.  So maybe the current ognus looks
more like a bugfix release of 5.8?  So one idea would be to rechristen
ognus as 5.8 and release that as 5.8.8.  But that would mean a lot of
fiddling with the release/branch structure.  Hm.

Yet another thought: go to the head of the 5.8 branch in CVS (I'm sure
there is such a branch, isn't there?), and merge ognus changes in
there.  This would be kinda like the previous paragraph, only without
the fiddling in the release/branch structure.

Yet ANOTHER thought: release 5.8.7 again, only this time with
mail-source-delete-incoming set to the right value :-)  Are there
serious bugs in 5.8.7?  I vaguely remember that I have told people to
fetch a 5.8.8 snapshot quite a number of times, but I don't remember
the details.  Gack.  I wish I did.  But there must have been a reason
for me to do so.  Hm.

> And there was some talk about not doing any alpha releases any more,
> but just keep that in cvs...

Hm.  That's an idea.  Hm.  I think it would be nice to keep the
snapshots, though.  Maybe there are people out there for whom CVS is a
real hassle but who would still like access to the development
sources.  Maybe if you keep a week's worth of daily snapshots?

kai
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