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Re: Stable 5 release.

 

Migrating is definitely a version to version issue so v4 to v5 migration
would make the upgrade path clear.  I would hope no one is upgrading
from old stable to v5.  That would really be ugly.

On 7/18/2018 9:50 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> I am talking with Nick about if we want the "migration from old
> stable" still in the sidebar, or if we should replace it with V4 to V5
> migration, or if we should make a new generic migration page.  I think
> we could discuss it here, rather than a Github issue on the website
> repo.
> 
> I think "migration from old stable" will be confusing for folks once
> V5 is out.  Thoughts?
> 
> Adam
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 7:41 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The goal is to have everything tagged by Friday and then give the
>> package builders a few days to get the 5.0.0 packages (or a least most
>> of them) built and added to the website before making the official
>> announcement.  I still have some changes to make to the release
>> announcement which I should have done by Friday.  Would the person
>> responsible for providing the website patch for the v5 package links
>> please let me know when that is ready to go.  Is there anything else
>> that I missed?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> On 7/18/2018 8:22 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>>> Tell me if I am wrong, but I start to believe we are going to publish v5
>>> this Friday. Is there anything missing I could help with? Do we have the
>>> website updates ready?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Orson
>>>
>>> On 07/11/2018 08:49 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>> Are there any critical bugs remaining to be fixed for the stable 5
>>>> release?  I didn't see any thing outstanding but I may have missed
>>>> something while I was on vacation.  I'm going to create a 5.0.0
>>>> milestone for the last few remaining bugs and shoot for a 7/20 tag date
>>>> unless there are any more critical bugs lurking about.  I will also
>>>> create 5.0 and 5.1 branches.  If I tag on 7/20, I would like to make the
>>>> release announcement on 7/27.  Does anyone see any issues with these dates
>>>>
>>>> How do stand with our installers?  I saw the macos installer was making
>>>> some nice progress.
>>>>
>>>> Are the doc devs, library devs, and translators (except for the recent
>>>> minor string changes) ready?
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything else I'm missing?  I really would like to make these
>>>> dates.  I have an Olimex TERES laptop kit that I've been dying to play
>>>> around with but I know once I start on that, everything else will get
>>>> pushed to the back burner so I'm not going to start until version 5 is
>>>> released. :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
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