Re: Drop tarball releases and go ELPA only

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Arash,

I'm personally generally in favour of moving the release process
entirely to ELPA!

On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 at 14:17, Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> wrote:

> • Archive current master as auctex-13, and keep main as default branch.
>   This means that every commit generates a new release on ELPA-devel.
> • Archive current master as auctex-13, and introduce a new intermediate
>   default branch, say develop or some such.  And then merge into main on
>   a regular basis.

My only comment is that I think it'd still be valuable to keep having
stable releases (published through ELPA) every now and then, just as
it is now, and not go full "every commit is a release" mode.  For
example proper releases are useful to take the time to summarise
notable changes (git log is good for developers, but not as much for
end users), and in particular better explain what to do with breaking
changes, when they happen.  And in general I think downstream
packagers tend to prefer "stable releases" to "pick a random commit"
when given the choice.

Bye,
Mosè