Re: [Banshee-List] how does the release process work?

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 03/05/2009 07:41 AM, Christoph Burgdorf wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Since yesterday banshee 1.4.3 was released, I have a question about
> the release process. I must admit that I don’t know much about
> getting a release out. I always thought that you just freeze the
> trunk when you think it is stable and then make a release from what
> is in trunk. But since I always have a keen eye on my own patches I
> recognized that patch #568891 which was commited to trunk some weeks
> ago, is not part of this release. But other patches which came even
> later are part of the release.

In the case of Banshee, there is a "stable" branch where 1.4.x releases 
are now made.  The reason for this is that the 1.4.x series will be 
supported for a long time.

The next releases you see from trunk will be versioned 1.5.x, if I 
understand correctly.

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/banshee/branches/banshee/stable/

This is a little different from the way most GNOME projects work, where 
a new branch is created for each stable series.  I guess Banshee only 
supports one stable series at a time.

Hope this helps,
Sandy