Getting things moving again

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sun Nov 5 00:34:28 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> Would you please fix the VERSION string and update the text in 
> devel/hacking.txt to clarify what should get bumped after a release.  Should 
> it go to 1.0.1 or 1.1.1?

I set it at 1.0.1. I'm expecting 1.1 to be the next minoe release.

> The release recipe should also get updated to include bumping the version 
> number after making the tarball and git tag.

That'a a bit tricky and fragile in shell.  I'll look further into it, but
for the moment I've settled fotr making the release script emit a warning.
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