Wine Stable/Release Changes

[Jens Reyer]

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