Release procedure

[Roland Illig]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     Roland, I like your proposal, for a major release version.
> 
>     But I got the feeling that we could go back to bi-weekly releases,
> so with a quick release schedule, translators just need to make sure
> they can catch the next train if their translations are not available.

bi-weekly releases? You're kidding, aren't you? I think this would be 
too much work for us. What about bi-monthly?

There are many big projects waiting to be addressed, like extended 
character support, a uniform and simple pathname scheme. These projects 
will take much more time than two weeks to be finished.

>     I have made a tarball of the current "trunk" release and fixing a
> few issues in make distcheck, the question that remains is: what version
> should we use?

What did you fix?

>     We continue to use the 4.6.xx family name.  I think it might be time
> to change one of those numbers to identify the changes done since the
> 4.6.0 release in a more significant way.

I would prefer 4.7. (Just to leave the long past of 4.6.* pre-releases 
behind us. ;))

Roland