[parted-devel] Preparing for a 3.3 release

[Brian C. Lane]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 02:05:34PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 10/17/2018 8:07 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> > So I thought I'd try making an alpha release since I've never done all
> > the steps involved before.
> > 
> > Ends up it's quite painful.
> > 
> > I've now run out of time (and energy) to work on this, so here's a set
> > of patches:
> > 
> > https://github.com/bcl/parted/pull/5
> > 
> > which really don't look like much, but when you have to keep iterating
> > to find the *next* error it becomes quite tedious.
> 
> It sounds like you've got a checklist that I don't and are running some
> auto tests I haven't before.  Care to share?

I was going through the steps in README-release, running 'make
distcheck' IIRC.

> 
> > I think we need to do a few things:
> > 
> >  * Get a new 3.3 release out there (possibly call it 3.3.0?)
> >  * Streamline the tests so that it's easier for everyone to run them
> >    before submitting patches
> >  * Streamline the release process
> >  * Release *waay* more often :)
> 
> Sounds good.  Sorry I haven't been working on this lately; my third
> kiddo was born several weeks ago so that's been sucking up all of my energy.

Congrats! I'd say I remember how that goes, but it all seems like a
sleepless blur now :)


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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)