github release procedure

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, January 04, 2013 08:23:58 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:15:34AM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Friday, January 04, 2013 15:20:02 Johannes Pfau wrote:
> > > And most important: Were the main developers part of that discussion
> > > / have they agreed? While I agree LTS would be nice it needs someone
> > > to do it. You also have to consider the available man power.
> > 
> > For the most part, I don't think that they were. I think that Andrei
> > was really the only one of us involved at all, though I'd have to look
> > at the thread again to be sure.
> 
> [...]
> 
> We solicited for core dev involvement in that thread, but AFAIK, there
> was only limited participation. It felt like we were just talking about
> castles in the air, because the people who would actually be
> implementing the process didn't say very much at all. So I wasn't at all
> surprised at the misunderstandings in this thread.
> 
> Still, I think we're finally converging on the same page here, so that's
> a good thing.

The thread was way too big, and I had too little time to get into that 
conversation, which is why I wasn't involved.

- Jonathan M Davis