Re: Xen 4.3 released!

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>]

On 11/07/2013 16:13, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 15:59, "George Dunlap" <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Ian Murray <murrayie@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> If I was me, though, I'd want it documented well enough that anyone with the
>> access and the authority could perform the release.
>> Ian's list was mostly about what to do with branches, and all of it
>> had already been done except for the actual tagging part.  I think in
>> the past Keir just did all of the make-the-release-ready stuff
>> himself.
> I did indeed. This is the first release where it's all been handled by
> others, so there are some rough edges. It's all good, it will get documented
> and improved for next time.
>
>   -- Keir
>
We should probably put up the checklist on the wiki. It's good for 
transparency and will help in case somebody is ill during the release. 
We also learned a bit about the mechanics of press releases: basically 
they can't be stopped once they are scheduled on the newswire. Thank you 
again to everyone for making the release happen on time (-:
Lars