github release procedure

[Dmitry Olshansky]

05-Jan-2013 00:01, Rob T пишет:
> On Friday, 4 January 2013 at 17:11:54 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> The more I think about it, staging really seems to be useful to avoid
>> some corner cases.
>
> I haven't had time to study the newly proposed process in enough detail
> to properly comment, but it always seemed to me that you cannot get away
> without a staging branch. You can try very hard to do without, but it
> means something else will suffer for the lack of it, so it seems you are
> coming to the same conclusion which is good (unless I'm wrong).
>
> 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.

Staging branch was there, so did the betas.
What could have helped is announcing beta at D.announce instead of 
separate list. Plus at holidays there was not much of beta test coverage.


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Dmitry Olshansky