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Some more stuff for README_maintainer

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Carsten Dominik 2010-11-24 12:40:13 +01:00
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@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ and how they are performed.
John Wiegley is running a patchwork server that looks at the
emacs-orgmode mailing list and extracts patches. The maintainer and
his helpers should work through such patches, give feedback on them
and apply the ones which are good and done.
and apply the ones which are good and done. A task for the maintainer
is to every now and then try to get old stuff out of that list, by
asking some helpers to investigate the patch, by rejecting or
accepting it.
I have found that the best workflow for this is using the pw script by
Nate Case, with the modifications for Org-mode made by John Wiegley
@ -118,12 +121,13 @@ branches left over from the testing.
The release number for minor releases look like this: =7.13.01=
Minor releases are small amends to main releases. Usually they fix
bugs discovered in a main release. Only the fix to the bug is
bundled into a release, without the main development work going on in
the master branch. Since the bug fix will also be needed in the
master branch, usually the fix is made in master and then
cherry-picked into maint. When this is done, a release is made from
maint with this command:
critical bugs discovered in a main release. Minor bugs are not
fixed - they will be adressed in the next main release. Only the fix
to the bug is bundled into a release, without the main development
work going on in the master branch. Since the bug fix will also be
needed in the master branch, usually the fix is made in master and
then cherry-picked into maint. When this is done, a release is made
from maint with this command:
: make fixrelease TAG=7.13.01