[qbzr] qbzr 0.19b1 late - sorry [RFC] Release cadence balance wrong?

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> I feel maintaining at least one stable branch is worth its efforts.
> Maybe we should drop support for 0.14.6 soon. But definitely 0.18.x is the
> good way for doing things.

I agree.

> For me doing release is about 1-2 hours work, including updating news,
> packaging tarball and building installer, register release on LP, upload
> files to LP, and then write and send a bunch of announce mails.

Normally takes be about 3hrs

> So if you need my help for doing the release, you always can just ask. I
> can't help with PPA, sorry.
>
> Most of the time I'm doing the releases. I'm OK to continue doing so. I
> wasn't aware that it creates so much troubles for you.

That's not what I want. I appreciate that you do most of the releases,
but I want to share the load. I want you to also be free to spend more
time doing dev.

> I don't understand "release cost". Is there anything I can automatize?

Now that we are keeping NEWS up to date, it's much quicker.

One of things that I need to look at is the windows installers. I
normaly find myself rebooting about 2-6 times, switching between
ubuntu and windows. I need to either figure how to build the windows
installer in ubuntu, or setup a vm.

The other thing that is time consuming is writing the release announcements.