From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Kurth Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 released! Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <51DEDAF0.8060807@xen.org> References: Reply-To: lars.kurth@xen.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 11/07/2013 16:13, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 11/07/2013 15:59, "George Dunlap" wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Ian Murray 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