WWN Issue 399

This is the 399th issue of the World Wine News publication. This time a special edition!

WineConf 2015	Archive
Last weekend at WineConf 2015 in Vienna we intensively talked about our stable releases, how to integrate wine-staging, signing off patches and much more. In this WWN special edition I want to present changes to our stable release process. See also: WineConf2015 in our Wiki

WineConf 2015

Wine Stable/Release Changes	Archive
Michael Stefaniuc wrote in: 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.

Michael Stefaniuc wrote in:

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.