[MPlayer-users] Next rc or 1.0 anyone

[Raimund Berger]

Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> IMO: making a release tarball, getting some people to do binary
> builds/packages (it might be a good idea to latch onto the "releases"
> gentoo does), get some people to test it, especially compilation on
> diverse hardware and OS and if there are no obvious problems release it
> "officially" - if there are issues decide how important they are and bug
> someone to fix them.

Add an own rc branch/tree to the picture over which the release
manager has exclusive control especially during a feature freeze phase
during which he snapshots release candidates over a let's say 2 month
pre release testing period, and things begin to resemble common
practice.