[draft] Release plans for 1.9.0?

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:

> Last time I checked, 'make distcheck' still fails, but 'make check'
> passes.  I have some vague impression that this might cause packaging
> difficulties.

I'll play around with this when I can...  Usually it's "make check" that
causes "make distcheck" to fail.  If "make check" works then usually
distcheck fails because of missing EXTRA_DIST files.  I'll take a look.

> One thing I'd like to include in 1.9.0 is a gnucash-debug script that
> runs gnucash under gdb.

Speaking of which, I think you removed the gnucash-run-script from
src/bin/overrides but not src/bin -- what's up with that?

> I think we should totally change the way we produce the NEWS entries.
> We should be reporting on significant user-visible changes in the NEWS
> file.  I think that we should be making those entries at the _same_
> time as the changes themselves.  We can have an accumulator of entries
> at the top of the file and then just date and version it at
> release-time and start an empty accumulator.
>
> It's tempting to procrastinate but I think it's best to maintain NEWS
> as-we-go.  I'll try to commit some entries.

I think this "main NEWS as-we-go" makes sence for patchlevel releases
(e.g. 1.9.0->1.9.1, 1.9.1->1.9.2, etc).   I don't think it makes sense
for major releases (1.8->2.0).  There's just WAY WAY WAY too much to
keep track of as you go for a major release.

-derek

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