github release procedure

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, January 04, 2013 21:01:41 Rob T wrote:
> If we look at how the current 2.061.0 release went down, there
> was clearly no staging at all, it went straight out just as it
> did in the past, and we're already seeing complaints about broken
> code and bug fixes that should have gone into the release that
> were left out. We're also finding bugs discovered right after the
> release was made, this is not good and should not happen.

That's what the beta is for, which we did. Clearly, not enough people tried it 
out, or those regressions would have been caught. Creating a separate branch 
would not fix that.

- Jonathan M Davis