Re: Let's branch on Friday. (was: "Re: 1.8 new public API review (mostly) complete.")

Stefan Fuhrmann wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> Julian Foad wrote:
>>> So shall we get this branch branched very soon?  For the sake of making a
>>> decision, I'll suggest that we should try hard to get the things above
>>> resolved by the end of tomorrow, and that even if we don't they are not
>>> blockers, so:
>>>
>>> Let's branch on Friday.
>>>
>>> Any support or objections?
>>
>> None.  [...]
>>
>> +1 to a Friday branch unless folks raise reasonable objections.
>
> +1. On track for a release party in Berlin.

Friday is here and from what I can see we're ready to branch.  The API review is sufficiently complete.  Three issues in the tracker are still marked with a 1.8.0 milestone, and were being discussed on IRC this morning, and it doesn't seem that they block branching.

I am ready to create the branch and, after branching, bump the trunk minor version number.

I'll branch at about 18:30 UTC (less than an hour from now) if all still looks well at that time.

The releasing guidelines say to create the CHANGES section for 1.8 on trunk after branching, but that was done long ago.  In fact, we probably want to add a CHANGES section for 1.9 soon after branching.

Do we want to produce a tarball immediately?  I'm not clear on this.  I haven't read up on what to do, nor done it before, but if we do want to then I could probably do it this afternoon if it's not too involved, or on Monday.  Or I'd be happy if someone else wants to do it.

- Julian
Received on 2013-04-12 19:36:54 CEST