[cairo] Release management for Cairo

[Uli Schlachter]

Hi,

Am 26.12.20 um 22:28 schrieb Bryce Harrington:
> As mentioned in the 1.17.4 release notes, I'm stepping away from release
> management duties for Cairo.

Thanks Bryce for all your work on cairo. Yesterday I noticed that you've
been working on cairo since before I started working on it. So really,
thank you for everything.

[...]
> My recommendation would be to do a 1.16.x release
[...]

I had basically the same idea yesterday. The direct cause was Ben Pfaff
reporting another crash bug, but we had a few of those in recent times.
IIRC, all of them had almost trivial fixes. Hence, I created [0].
(However, I did not even try building the resulting tree.)
(Also, I will not merge that one since I created it. Let's have at least
four eyes on something like that.)

Additionally, it might make sense to apply [1] and [2] to the 1.16
branch before a new release.

Cheers,
Uli

[0]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/94
[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/90
[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/93
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