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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Feel free to procrastinate the announcement.

Since it seems we will reuse the 4.0.3 doc, lib and i18n but I they have
not been retagged yet, it is ok to delay it half a day.  Alternately you
could make the announcement a draft and I can publish it when ready.

Den 22/08/2016 17.46 skrev "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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