Re: [Audacity-devel] any more for under the wire for rc2?

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Heh, finished it before I read this!

And I moved several steps around, so they make more sequential sense.

On 4/5/2011 4:37 PM, Martyn Shaw wrote:
> Perhaps you could update
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Process
> with a few more details of the freeze/unfreeze cycle, for everybodies 
> benefit?  Am I right in thinking that the point of a freeze is that 
> all builders get the same version, and also that once it is built and 
> agreed that the "Tag the release in SVN" step is in sync with what the 
> builders got?

Basically yes, but "Tag" is after the final release is made.

> 
> There seems to be a problem on that page with 'Website release 
> announcements' where it says to 'Prepare and commit README.txt', 
> apparently after the builds have been done.  Isn't that a commit 
> during a freeze, and means we have a different README in different places?

Yes. I changed it.

- V


> 
> TTFN
> Martyn
> 
> On 05/04/2011 04:39, Vaughan Johnson wrote:
>> Hey, absolutely adjustable. We lost a standard process that worked and
>> need to rebuild the process, in mind of current participants.
>>
>>
>> Next deadline is 05:59 UTC April 6. Less than 48 hours, but open to
>> objection. Frozen until at least then.
>>
>> It will be rc3 or 1.3.13 release.
>>
>> Still a freeze except for urgent fixes, in which case we'll do rc3.
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience, Martyn. Thanks for all the work.
>>
>> - V
>>
>>
>> On 4/4/2011 5:42 PM, Martyn Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/04/2011 00:26, Leland wrote:
>>>> On 4/4/11 6:01 PM, Vaughan Johnson wrote:
>>>>> Two minutes to deadline.
>>>>
>>>> :-) Good thing I came home for work early to hit the deadline.  :-)
>>>
>>> Now there's the problem with the freeze time, and expected time to
>>> upload, and then testing time before renaming.  I had to sit around
>>> waiting for midnight before I could update and start the build.  (Then
>>> update again for people who missed the deadline, prior to building an
>>> installer.)  If a builder this side of the pond went to bed at
>>> midnight there might not be that build up for nearly 24 hours.
>>>
>>> In future, can we pick a better time of day for the freeze when most
>>> of us are in bed?  Maybe 05:59 UTC?  That might mean an 'expected'
>>> time to get an rc uploaded of about 18 hours around the globe, instead
>>> of 1-2 hours?  In the rc1 I failed to do the zip and had to go to be,
>>> another hour would have cracked that, I suspect.
>>>
>>> TTFN
>>> Martyn
>>
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