Re: RFC: creating a bison-announce list

[Akim Demaille]

> Le 24 déc. 2018 à 18:00, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi all,
> [...]
> Maybe creating bison-announce, which would be only about major events 
> (releases and prereleases), would help?

I have created address@hidden  To subscribe to it, two options:

- https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bison-announce
- mailto:address@hidden

This list will be limited to announcing releases (betas and stable releases), 
and maybe sometimes to announce important changes to get feedback.

It has been asked to explicitly mark releases on git, so that CIs can trigger 
builds automatically with these releases.  This is already the case: tags mark 
releases (betas and stable).  The tags are always "v<VERSION>", e.g., "v3.2", 
"v3.2.4", etc.  If monitoring tags is inconvenient, releases always have a git 
commit (the tagged one) whose title is "bison <VERSION>" and that looks like 
this:

> $ git show v3.2.4
> tag v3.2.4
> Tagger: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date:   Mon Dec 24 17:45:03 2018 +0100
> 
> bison 3.2.4
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> 
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> aWxsZUBnbWFpbC5jb20ACgkQDdyqMnjVJk7gGgCg1o/7hIgmOzH8t9c9a5agUzIS
> EpEAoIwmxPnGbtxjW+IkQBjipxwwCujr
> =FA+J
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> 
> commit 8adec9c125331bf61acc6c7091fa564887d03220 (tag: v3.2.4)
> Author: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date:   Mon Dec 24 17:45:02 2018 +0100
> 
>     version 3.2.4
>     
>     * NEWS: Record release date.
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 4c6ea056..56cac041 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  GNU Bison NEWS
>  
> -* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
> +* Noteworthy changes in release 3.2.4 (2018-12-24) [stable]
>  
>  ** Bug fixes

Cheers!