Re: [HACKERS] CVS Branch Tagging...

> > While it will be possible, I would like people to concentrate on the
> > existing 6.4 issues we have, and discourage parallel development on
> > separate final and features source trees.
>
> As Bruce describes, a "quiet time" just before and up to a month after a
> major release is a _really_ good idea. For a couple of reasons:
>
> 1) it lets us put out bugfix releases with a minimum of trouble
>
> 2) it lets people planning larger changes for the next release to work
> on a stable, quiet tree, with some assurance that they will likely be
> able to remerge their work when things unfreeze.
>
> imho we made a few too many changes (leading to uncertainties in exactly
> how much had changed, and uncertainty in how much might be newly broken)
> in the v6.3->v6.3.1->v6.3.2 release series, and we should try to be even
> quieter this time around.

Yes.

>
> Bruce, can you add the following items to the ToDo for docs:
>
> > Docs
> > ----
> > generate html/postscript documentation
> (User's Guide, Administrator's Guide, Programmer's Guide) (Thomas)
> > make sure all changes are documented properly (All)
>
> markup and merge JDBC docs from Peter (Thomas, others??)
> merge the release notes into doc/src/sgml/release.sgml (Bruce, Thomas)
> generate new text-format INSTALL and README from sgml sources (Thomas)

Added. I know I need to give you a new HISTORY file, and I will do that
this weekend, hopefully.

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