Re: [Protux-devel] INSTRUCTIONS ON 0.20.x STABILIZATION CYCLE AND 0.20 PUBLICATION

[Remon Sijrier]

> Remon
> =====
>
> You will be in charge of critical fixes in 0.20.x
>
> 1) copy your CVS tree to another directory
>
>       cp -a ~/protux/head ~/protux/stable
>
> same for libmustux
>
> 2) this directory "stable" is a local  tree which will be used.
> 3) Remove all the CVS entries from this directory. YOU CANNOT COMMIT
> CHANGES HERE
>
>       cd ~/protux/stable/
>       find . -name CVS | while read i; do rm -Rf $i; done
>
> 3) every time a bug is found, you manually fix that bug in this stable
> tree, wait for acumulation of many fixes, change configure.ac release
> number from 0.20.x to 0.20.(x+1), make dist, upload the packages.
>
> 4) For those fixes that must be repassed to the head CVS tree (the very
> critical), you manually duplicate the work and fix there too, and , of
> course,  commit those changes.
>
> 5) While you take care of the 0.20.x stabilization, I will start the CODE
> CLEANING, specially in the "fatty lady"(Song class) and JMB engine. You can
> work on these too , but we must be very carefull to avoid conflicts (we
> will talk about this in details in other email)
>
> 6) you will concentrate on 0.20.x stabilization cycle until 0.21.0 (some
> few weeks), when I will be done with the code cleaning, Then you can get
> back to normal work (CVS tree)
>
> 7) when the 0.30 is released, we will consider 0.20.x deprecated

OK

Greetings,

Remon.


P.S. Where and when to we celebrate this release? ;-P