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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just tagged 4.0.4 so technically you can start creating packages
against it.  I'm not sure of the status of the doc, lib, and translation
repos.  I will try to make the announcement before I go out of town for
the weekend but I cannot promise that it will happen.

On 8/22/2016 10:50 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> This package dev is fine with you waiting a few days for 4.0.4, but
> let's not stretch out much more than that.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 09:57:26AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>     > On 8/22/2016 9:53 AM, Clemens Koller wrote:
>     > > Hi, Wayne!
>     > >
>     > > On 2016-08-22 14:09, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>     > >> I wasn't planning on migrating the stable 4 branch to git.  I'm hoping
>     > >> there wont be too many more 4 stable releases so I'm not sure it's worth
>     > >> the effort.
>     > >
>     > > Ok, I was wondering...
>     > > I was missing the stable branch, too - as well as all the tags of the old
>     > > releases, etc. I personally don't need them, but it could be useful
>     > > and interesting to get all former references (r6994, rev 6994, 4.0.0-rc...)
>     > > migrated over to the git side once.
>     >
>     > My one gripe about git is the commit hash tags.  They really are not
>     > very user friendly.  The tags you mention above are all in 4 stable
>     > branch so if you continue to use bzr for the stable 4 branch, you should
>     > not have any issues.  I will tag future stable versions in git when we
>     > get to that point so you will be able to use git tags in the same
>     > manner.  I'm not sure how maintaining a stable branch in git is going to
>     > work.  I'm guessing that it will be a completely separate repo like we
>     > do with bzr but I'm going to worry about that when the time comes.
> 
>     As for the hashes not being user-friendly...well, that's what tags are
>     for! Commits aren't really sequential anyway, since you can do all sorts
>     of weird stuff with branching and merging, so bzr's sequential numbers
>     do start to fall apart once you do that. When you have code you think is
>     ready for public release, tag it!
> 
>     We could even do a 'testing' series, where we move commits from devel
>     that are mostly okay, and tag a testing 'release' roughly weekly or so
>     with a simple incrementing version number - this would be a nice middle
>     ground between stable, which honestly starts to get a bit stale, and
>     devel which occasionally breaks.
> 
>     This could even then be used as a staging ground for things to be
>     brought into the stable branch, allowing a somewhat smoother release
>     cadence.
> 
>     Pardon me, I'm just daydreaming a bit... :)
> 
>     >
>     > >
>     > > Regards,
>     > >
>     > > Clemens
>     > >
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