On 09/22/2015 01:39 PM, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
Hello,
at WineConf we had a fairly uncontroversial discussion about the Wine Stable release process. As the current process of feature based Wine releases isn't working(*) following changes were agreed upon.
Release Process Changes ----------------------- - Switch to time based releases.
- Major releases once a year in autumn/fall. Code freeze starts around mid/end of September.
- Michael Stefaniuc will be the stable maintainer starting with 1.8.x. Other people are more than welcome to help out with Wine Stable. I'll document stuff and send out a request for help during the code freeze.
- The stable release will be supported in bugzilla.
- This changes take effect immediately. You can expect Alexandre to announce a code freeze in the next couple of weeks.
- We will revisit this changes should the need arise, e.g. reduce the time between two major stable releases. [...]
Awesome, thank you all and especially thank you Michael! This sounds generally good and looks like fitting perfectly for Debian, which currently freezes in November/December. Greets jre