Release?

[James Browning]

On 2025-03-11T21:58:07-0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> What needs to happen before we can get a release out?

0. Someone should update the "devel/hacking.adoc" release process checklist, 
later.

1. It's past time to release; we have landed new features and significant bug 
fixes, and too many days have passed.

2. Everyone awake and engaged knows/writes; NEWS and TODO files are always 
outdated, so ignore them.

3. We are not getting a quorum because of absent devs; it is too long, cut the 
release soon.

4. The build-bots are mostly succeeding:

a. Usual bouts of Heisenbugs run their course
b. macOS-14-m1 runners are still timing out (under-provisioned?)
c. You switched off the asciidoc-3 jobs.
d. Various jobs no longer barfing on -Wall -Werror
e. The cross-armhf builders have been quieted.

11: I suggest a local container instead of a remote one.

11-7: "apt install python3-gps" instead of additional step w/ pip?

11-9: The GitLab SSH fingerprints are at
https://gitlab.com/help/instance_configuration

16. I am unsure about posting the upcoming release to X.posting the 
forthcoming release to X.