Re: starting 2.13 soon

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Monday, February 23, 2009 1:52 PM


> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 06:59:44PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > Trevor Daniels a écrit :
> > > I'd go along with going straight to 2.13 too.  AFAIK there are
> > > no serious outstanding issues with 2.12.2 that must be fixed,
> > > and I feel a little uncomfortable with some of the doc changes
> > > which will appear in the next release.  I'd rather they went 
> > > into 2.13.
> > There should be a 2.12.3 for Japanese translation, but this 
> > doesn't
> > prevent us to
> > start 2.13 on master branch right now: we else can branch out 
> > from master
> > a branch named stable/2.12 and use it to release 2.12.3 as soon 
> > as GUB
> > is ready for this.
>
> Ok, I've just modified the VERSION file with a great fanfare.  And
> by "great fanfare" I mean sitting in my room in my underwear,
> listening to a BBC radio documentary about torturers.
> ... yeah, sometimes even *I* can't make up stories weirder than
> real life.
>
>
> Trevor, I'm not certain exactly which doc changes make you
> uncomfortable, but could you let John know about them?  If they're
> really bad, then maybe he could revert those patches in the
> stable/2.12 branch.

No, it's OK.  Just a mild preference.  Not worth any trouble.
I'd added a new section or two which caused a renumbering.
It's not really a problem.

Trevor