github release procedure

[Rob T]

On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 19:19:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 1/3/13 1:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> As I suggested to Jacob, if the wiki lists git command 
>> sequences, it
>> should be complete (like a script), and not full of 
>> assumptions about
>> other commands that need to be inserted.
>
> I think this is a pertinent point - the process proposed at 
> github is incomplete and scantily motivated. Can the experts 
> make one more pass through it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

I'm rather concerned when I see comments that suggest that the 
purpose of the staging branch was not understood in the 
slightest. There's a lot of discussion on the issue here 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ka5rv5$2k60$1@digitalmars.com

The people who are attempting to use the new process have to at 
least take some time to read through the process discussion 
threads, certainly that is not ideal, and the wiki should explain 
everything much better.

The reason for a less than adequate process description, is that 
the process was not yet fully completed and was difficult to 
complete without a dry run to work out the bugs and oversights 
etc. Instead of a dry run, we're experiencing the real thing, 
started in the middle of the holidays to boot.

We have to expect some problems of course!

It would be nice to contain everything under one discussion 
thread so that the same people who started this whole thing are 
more likely to notice the complaints and misunderstandings and so 
forth.

--rt