Re: 1.7.1 release. Re: [pygame] 1.7 releases?

[Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/28/05, Richard Jones <richardjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:55 am, Rene Dudfield wrote:
> > 1.7.1 is the next release.  Below are the steps to make a release, so
> > that the different people involved can coordinate it.
> > docs/howto_release_pygame.txt in cvs.
> >
> > The first step is this:
> > *  declare next release as coming soon to developers, and mailing list.
> 
> This would be announced by the release person: do we have a release person for
> 1.7.1?
> 

yeah, I'll do this release.

> 
> > Get in any changes that haven't made it into the last release.
> > Soon(about a week) there will be a freeze on non bug fixes.
> 
> And changes are still submitted as indicated on
> http://www.pygame.org/cvs.html ?
> 

yeah, submit patches according to that page.

> 
> Your release steps look good, though I don't think it's clear what the trigger
> is for a new rc. I assume a new rc is only generated if there's a problem
> with a prior rc. If there's no problems with an rc, it's re-tagged with the
> final release tag?
> 
> 


Yes that is correct.  If there is a problem with the release
candidate(rc), and there needs to be changes then a new rc is made. 
If there are no changes, then it is retagged as the final release.


Thanks for the notes, I'll update the doc.