Merge

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 6/3/24 03:04, José Matos wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-06-02 at 22:53 -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> I've merged 2.4.x into 2.4.1-devel. I should have been  doing this
>> periodically but didn't. There were quite a few conflicts,
>> unsurprisingly. I believe I have resolved them all properly, and I've
>> spot-checked several commits. But you might want to have a look and
>> make sure I didn't mess anything up.
>>
>> Going forward, this should not be as much of an issue, since commits
>> to 2.4.x will be few. And hopefully, we won't need an emergency
>> release, and I can merge 2.4.1-devel into 2.4.x before long.
>>
>> Riki
> An interesting idea that comes from KDE is that bugfix releases use a
> Fibonacci series (assuming F_0=1).
>
> The first bug fix release (.1) is done one week after the stable
> release (.0).
> The second release is done 2 weeks after .1.
> The third release is done 3 weeks after .2.
> The fourth release is done 5 weeks after .3.
>
> ...
>
> My point here is to establish some kind of deadline.
> Something like "unless some emergency bug comes 2.4.1 is (more or less)
> scheduled for the end of the month".

There are quite a few updates already, so a release at the end of the 
month would make sense. So would some kind of regular schedule.

Riki