Re: To release or not to release ...

["William Scott Lockwood III" <vlad lrsehosting com>]

4.6.1.

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Regards,
Scott

---==== [ Miguel de Icaza ] ===---
> Hello,
>
>> Posting a tarball extracted from CVS to the list is not what I would
>> call "doing a release".
>
> Feel free to send in comments for the release announcement.
>
> I have been away so I do not know what would go on the announcement if
> the NEWS file has not been maintained accordingly.
>
> Feel free to write the release notes, thats fine.
>
>> > Then a kind developer told me that I skipped one number (I do not
>> think
>> > its a major issue, and he re-released) and posted here.
>>
>> How do you expect to "maintain" a project if you don't communicate with
>> the developers on their perception of the necessary steps to take? You
>> do an occasional post to this list and then you disappear again for
>> weeks.
>
> Well, the situation is that Pavel was busy, and am trying to assist
> here, and cooperation from those who have been involved in the day to
> day basis of the project would help.
>
> So instead of preaching `why dont you communicate', what about actually
> communicating and expressing what you think must be done?
>
>> > The only issue is that I need to get an account on ibiblio to make it
>> > completely official.  I will ask for one.
>>
>> Can't you arrange this with Pavel Roskin? I think he has all the
>> necessary access credentials to the relevant sites.
>
> I have, and this is what he had to say:
>
> 	As for 4.6.1-pre4 tarball, it has been available since June 8:
> 	http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/
>
> If all it needs is some blessing, then lets bless that.
>
> Pavel is in the process of moving and has a small window of connection
> to the internet.
>
>> P.S. By the way, we did fix a double free that caused a crash on some
>> systems recently. Please don't forget to update before releasing.
>
> What do you suggest must be done?   Bump the number to pre4, or should
> this become 4.6.1, or should this be 4.6.2?
>
> MIguel.
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