[Bf-committers] Proposal for 2.36 release

[Kent Mein]

In reply to Daniel Fairhead (madprof at uk2.net):

> How about the 2.3 to 2.4 split that will happen some day? How about doing that now? Keeping 2.3x as stable tree, no new features, and doing all the GUI redesigning, makefiles-refactoring, new transform, and all the other "obvious" changes into 2.4?
> 
> Um, sorry if I'm repeating others.
> 
> Dan

I'm not trying to tear into Dan here, I'm just lazy and like replying vs
typing the address for a new post.  I personally think that the releases
have been going fairly smoothly.  I also think that this latest version
of blender has had many, many, many of the older long standing bugs fixed.
Sure their may be a few rough edges, but I think things are working
smooth, I don't think we should do anything drastic, I think we can
tweak the release process but I think we also have a nice balance.

We have enough releases where people aren't chomping on the bit saying when
is the next version coming out, its been FOREVER!!!!

We also have lots of peopling saying that the quality of the releases
is pretty dang high.  

One thing that I kind of miss with the NaN days were a couple of times there
was a beta download that all of the people on #blenderchat would play
with for a few days and it always seemed to turn up some bugs.  Maybe we
should sort of have a "Pre release" phase of a long weekend or something
before the official release where some users kick the crap out of it
for a few days and assuming everything is good it moves to the release and if
not we do a new build.

Over all though I think things work well and keep getting better.  I don't
really see a need for significant change.

Kent
-- 
mein at cs.umn.edu
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mein