Re: [Webware-devel] simplifying release procedures

[Jason H. <ja...@pe...>]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:32, Tavis Rudd wrote:
> This is an excellent idea, particularly the bit about RelNotes-HEAD.  With 
> Cheetah it takes only 20 minutes to cut, test, tag, upload, and announce a 
> new release.  There's no reason why Webware's release procedure couldn't be 
> that easy.
> 
> I think with the 'bumping' of the release-notes you'd actually want to 
> distinguish between what happening in 0.8b1 and 0.8b2.  A new file should be 
> created for this type of bump as well.

True.  Though after the "final" version is released (e.g. 0.8), it might
make sense to merge the b1, b2, etc. notes together into RelNotes-0.8,
so that people upgrading from 0.7 have all the notes in one place.  On
the other hand, maybe that's too complicated (I'm thinking of the KISS
principle).

-- 
Jason D. Hildebrand
ja...@pe...