Re: Time (to start planning) for a new release?

On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 02:30:13 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:

>  This is my once every two (or so)
>  year mention that Ubuntu will be
>  freezing versions of software to
>  be included in their 24.04 LTS
>  release on February 29th of this
>  year, so it may be time to review
>  any open issues, or pending work,
>  and make a new release before the
>  freeze (and while fixes can always
>  be made available, some users
>  of the Ubuntu LTS releases tend
>  to update closer to never).
>  
>  Thanks for your consideration.
  
 
Good idea.

We should probably tempo disable the GitHub 'Action' that builds the Windows (and maybe the Linux?) releases while we are updating. 

Reason = they pick up the "Release" tag from GH and so might overwrite the live 1.2.1 with changes-in-progress (and so the real 1.2.1 will be lost from history - q.v. https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/files/ ).


Just as a recap:

The Windows build creates a 64-bit xmltv.exe and a 32-bit xmltv32.exe. The 64-bit flavour is uploaded to alpha-exe.  Both the 32- and 64-bit windows builds are uploaded to SourceForge, and sets the SF "Default Download" for Windows (64-bit), and also for Linux (in case that hasn't already been set).

The workflow also creates a zip of the Windows exe plus DTD/readme, and uploads it to the Assets for the latest Release. It will do separate zipfiles for 32- and 64-bit exe files.

It only does this for 'push' triggers. (For pull requests the makefile is run but then it stops before making the exes or the zips.) 


Thanks,
Geoff