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Re: Stable 5 release.

 

Oof! I hadn't even thought of that.  I was just concerned about folks
not understanding that "old stable" means a specific nameless release,
rather than the phrase "a stable release that is older than the
current release".

Adam
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:56 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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