Early 2.2.7 release?

[Nathan Buchanan]

Hi!
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:05 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > >         Is it reasonable to consider an quicker-than-usual release of
> 2.2.7?
> > >
> > >     Funny you should ask that.  Andreas and I were discussing that
> > >     on IRC earlier today.
> > >
> > > I think an earlier release would not be a bad idea, as I imagine the
> bulk of
> >
> > We came to the same conclusion.  The date bug in particular
> > warrants a quick turnaround to 2.2.7.
>
> Sure.
>
> OTOH, I will need at least one week to review the stuff pending.  I hope
> to start this work this weekend.
>
> @Charles, have you checked whether there are interesting gnome package
> updates?  Especially GTK+, ORBit2 and other such base packages may have
> fixed some of the bugs happening on Windows.
>
> @Nathan, do you think we can release 2.2.7 on the next but one weekend,
> i.e. 30th/31st of August.  Also, is there a way to set up regular builds
> from branches/2.2 so that volunteers may test before we release?
> (Windows builds are still more complicated than Unix ones).
>

Probably. I'll know better in a few days, but I'll plan for the 30th/31st
weekend.

I can setup regular builds for branches/2.2, possibly as early as Wednesday.
I'm thinking of daily builds with a complete rebuild of all supporting
libraries every friday. Does that sound suitable?

Nathan

>
> Ciao,
> -- Andreas
>
>
>


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