Re: 0.4.5 release procedure
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:05 pm
If there are no new issues that we can actually do anything about, then I suppose we can call it a release...?
No objection. I didn't have much time for FO last week, but I hope there have been some people doing some playtesting. Apparantly nothing major turned up, so I guess you can go ahead...Geoff the Medio wrote:If there are no new issues that we can actually do anything about, then I suppose we can call it a release...?
I was expecting you'd do the ahead going...?Vezzra wrote:...I guess you can go ahead...
Well, traditionally, once you had decided to declare a RC to be the official release, you told me to rename the RC builds and did all the announcements (in the front page news, on the forum etc.) yourself.Geoff the Medio wrote:I was expecting you'd do the ahead going...?
Renaming and making a front page post now would be good. To do that, it'd be good if you also made a post like this for the v0.4.5 release to link to... I'm not sure of the situation with Linux builds and whether anything will ever be linkable...Vezzra wrote:Shall I go ahead and do it now?
For Linux, I think the best thing would be to include a link to our Downloads page, in which there are instructions for Debian, Ubuntu and Arch Linux. It seems to me we should also probably add a Compile subsection on the downloads page that links to the Compile page and the Compile in Linux page.Geoff the Medio wrote:I'm not sure of the situation with Linux builds and whether anything will ever be linkable...
Done. Feel free to edit that post if you think that something can/should be said better/different. Shall we remove the old announcement post for 0.4.4 from the top announcement section? It's probably better to keep just the announcement for the most recent release there...Geoff the Medio wrote:it'd be good if you also made a post like this for the v0.4.5 release to link to
I guess not. Referring the people to the repos of their distros and to the compile instructions for Linux are probably fine/sufficient. Dilvish' suggestions also make sense.I'm not sure of the situation with Linux builds and whether anything will ever be linkable
I've made the post in the announcements forum, updated the news on the wiki front page and sent a twitter message.Whatever announcing / posting you don't do I'll try to get to in a day or two.
Figured, just checked channel is +t so lets me out for changing it.Geoff the Medio wrote:I'd usually update the IRC channel topic with the name of the newest release. Haven't actually been in there in months, though...
I don't do any IRC at all, ever, so I've to leave that one to you.Geoff the Medio wrote:I'd usually update the IRC channel topic with the name of the newest release.
Haven't done anything ever on youtube either. Anyway, just logged in and looked around, as it shouldn't be too hard to figure out how to post there, but I'm a bit confused - apparently I can make postings in two different areas, "Overview" and "Discussion". Where should a release announcement go?Could make a post on the Youtube page.
Done.Master branch test builds for this week would also be nice.
A previous release announcement was in Discussion, so that would be fine, I guess...?Vezzra wrote:...apparently I can make postings in two different areas, "Overview" and "Discussion". Where should a release announcement go?
Well, there's also an older one in the Overview section, which is actually what confused me. If I had found release announcements in only one section, I would just have posted there, but now I'm not sure... I'm not familiar with youtube channels and how to use them at all, so I figured I better ask. Discussion has the more recent announcement, so Discussion it shall beGeoff the Medio wrote:A previous release announcement was in Discussion, so that would be fine, I guess...?