On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:25 -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote: > But what's involved? GIMP releases are source-only, I take it that you don't use the manual... and that you use GIMP in only one language, and, further, that the language you use is US English... :-) In addition there are installers for supported platforms, not just a source distribution. There's also testing... including changes to dependencies in configure scripts, for example. > I would think that in an ideal world, one of the autobuilders would > tag/branch each successful point-release build, then one of these (say, ~75 > days in) becomes the first -RC. That gives up to 2-3 weeks worth of RCs, > assuming no calamitous test results. That part is closer to what happens. Encouragement is one thing... and of course a good thing... but being a proactive release manager is another. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Co-author, 5th edition of "Beginning XML", Wrox, 2012 _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
