Re: [Nmh-workers] Alas, No nmh in RedHat 4

[Peter Maydell]

Joel Reicher wrote:
>> Ideally we ought to do another release at some point. Does anybody
>> remember how to do one? :-)
>
>There's a target called "nmhdist" in the Makefile (once you've
>generated that using the autoconf tools). Ultimately it uses the
>string in the file VERSION, IIRC, but I think it's the autoconf tools
>which read that in.

Mmm. I was thinking also about things like updating the savannah
page and so on (do you need to be a 'project admin' for that?)

>> I happen to have some spare time, which I could use to work out
>> whether there are bugs in the bug tracking system which ought to
>> be fixed, fix them, etc, if these are likely to get into a release...
>
>I think the first step should be to create a 1.3 branch in CVS and then
>do the release work on that. There are some changes I've been keeping
>to myself because they're a bit too radical to go into the next release,
>I think, and if we branched I'd be able to check them into the trunk.

Yeah, I guess a branch is the right thing here.

What do we want to put into 1.3, then? Looking in the BTS, I don't
think any of the bugs are particularly critical. So my vote would
be for 'release 1.3 more or less as the head of CVS is now', and
then go for a 1.4 hopefully not too long after that, with some of
the other bugs fixed (inc from Maildir, tempfiles, better MIME
support, maybe).

-- PMM