[Docutils-develop] Re: Release

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

David Goodger wrote:

> Felix Wiemann wrote:
>
>> I'd like to create a beta-release in the near future, even if there
>> are still quite some things to be done -- but we can't wait forever,
>> IMO.
>
> Great!  Should we even bother with a beta, or just set a deadline and
> go straight to 0.4?

No, definitively not.  There are still too many things to do.

After all, we are are developing free software, so why bother setting a
deadline for a release?  (A deadline for new features would be OK, JFTR,
but at the moment, no new features are going to be added anyway, are
they?)

>> What do you consider the most important new features/changes?
>
> Do you mean, ... added since 0.3?

Yes.

> The HISTORY.txt file lists all the changes since 0.3.

These are very detailed (so primarily for developers).  I'd just be
interested in major changes.  Or do you think linking to HISTORY.html is
sufficient?

>> I'd like to create a small release web page for that (claiming it's
>> beta, listing known bugs, new features etc.)  Where should I do
>> that?  In the docutils web tree, or on my personal website, or
>> somewhere else?
>
> I'd say do it in the docutils web tree.

OK, fine.

> The docutils.sf.net/index.txt file could be split up and improved a
> lot.

Later.  :)

> We could adopt ht2html if anybody has the bandwidth to set it up.

Too much work, at least at the moment.  I don't think we really need a
navigation bar or something like that, although it would be handy, of
course.

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