[MPlayer-users] Next rc or 1.0 anyone

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 01:38:04PM +0200, Raimund Berger wrote:
> 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.

That would already be the "our release manager is rich enough to not
need a job besides being release manager" stage. Not that I would mind
it.