Suggestion: Changes to release process, release from branch

[Andreas K. Huettel]

> 
> > The branch-and-continue-keeping-master-open approach keeps a decent
> > momentum going IMO.
> 
> Perhaps, but that's the momentum that causes problems - those developers
> should be focused on testing the release.  I fear that the "branch, wait
> two weeks, release" will just mean 2 weeks of nothing happening, because
> everyone has shifted focus to new work for master.
> 

A significant part of the problems that turned up late this time where
on old / slow / rare architectures where testing needs time or is not
done quickly.

At the same time, a very specific subset of developers then looks at 
fixing these bugs.

So I'm not so much concerned about this argument.

Further, testing is also done by people who are not developing glibc, 
and giving them more time and opportunity to report bugs is an argument
for the change.




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