Re: [xine-devel] Re: xine-lib 1-rc6 soon ?

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Stephen torri wrote:

> Do we have a scoreboard of tests like yours that we use for a release?
> For example, if all the tests on the scoreboard are green then we have
> passed all the regression testing for things xine supports. Therefore
> xine-lib is good to go for a new release.

Althought that question was not directed to me: We only have Thibaut's
scoreboard, and it has never been completely green before. However, it's a
good guideline about what has to be fixed ;-)

WRT releases, one should probably document the red parts for each release.

> > > 3) Is there a way to freeze the CVS repo so that a nightly build can be
> > > done without interferrence ?
> >
> > why ? The testsuite does a cvs checkout, developers are supposed to keep the repository in a compilable state.
>
> A project that I use will freeze the repo before a release. They do so
> to let any bug-fix only patches to go in. Once the build is done the
> repo is unfrozen (thawed) for general usage.

What we usually do is an informal freeze: The release manager writes to
-devel that we are going to release and asks developers to commit only
safe, well-tested patches and concentrate on bugfixes while holding new
features back.

> > > Perhaps this could be a training of a young padawan master Siggi.
> >
> > the release or the testsuite announcement ?
>
> I am available to help learn how to do a release.

Okay Stephen, you've got the job. Your first step is to lay out a
realistic release schedule and announce that on the mailing list,
considering all "show-stopper" bugs that should be fixed in this release.

Cheers,
	Siggi