WIP: Release timeline for 2.15.1, 2.16. and 2.17

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> I would like the release process to be uniform for major or minor, it
>> shouldn't matter.
>
> Well, there are some important differences.
>
> A minor release must never perturb the ABI.  So it should be a
> requirement that check-abi has no regressions with the existing
> abilist files.  Conversely, for a major release it should be a
> requirement to make sure abilist files have been updated as necessary
> so check-abi passes and to manually ensure that the abilist changes
> are kosher (only add a new symbol version set, don't change existing ones).
>
> And, of course, the whole schedule thing is entirely different for the
> two kinds of release.

Agreed.

All I'm saying is that I'm going to write *ONE* process with some
slightly different notes on major/minor release process.

Cheers,
Carlos.