Re: GNUstep releases this month?

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Ivan,

great that you remind us! The problem at the moment is that there is a know 
problem for 64bit big endian systems in gui (actually a rather long standing 
issue) and even two suitable solutions for it. But we haven’t decided which 
solution to prefer. Either we reach a consensus quickly and deploy the chosen 
solution to all affected classes or we release with this know issue. This 
sounds worse than it is. We had the issue for a few years and releases already 
and nobody noticed.

Apart from that I promise to bring the release notes of gui and back up to date 
over the weekend.

Cheers,
Fred

> Am 14.01.2021 um 18:40 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net>:
> 
> Hi maintainers et al!
> 
> What's the status of our individual projects? Should I plan on cutting
> the releases this or the next weekend?
> 
> Debian is soft-freezing on 2021-02-12. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBullseye
> 
> I'd like to ask maintainers who are interested in a release happening
> to please update the release documentation (see my commits from
> just-before-the-previous-release). Obviously, there's no need to
> update anything that's automatically generated.
> 
> The less time I need to spend on producing the release notes by
> reading through the commits and trying to piece together a story, the
> easier it is to make the release, validate it builds, sign it, upload
> it, prepare the signed emails for sending to GNU announcements, etc. I
> am happy to review maintainers' (or other volunteers') PRs updating
> the docs. If the docs are not updated, I am still ok writing the
> updates myself, it might just be messy.
> 
> The faster we can cut a release, the higher the chance that there's
> enough time for Debian package maintainers to get the package through
> the bureaucracy and into the bullseye archives.
>