[cairo] Time for a release ?

Heiko Lewin hlewin at gmx.de
Fri Nov 13 11:56:48 UTC 2020


There is some documentation, but I don't know how accurate it is:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/blob/master/RELEASING

No idea who has got the permissions/accounts to do a release or how to
get them.



On 11/13/20 12:31 PM, Stuart Axon wrote:
> This would definitely not be ideal downstream at pycairo, which is
> very much alive.
>
>
> Is the process for building / testing / releasing cairo documented
> anywhere ?
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, November 12, 2020, 9:07:07 PM GMT, Matthias Clasen
> <matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Ok, last call:
>
> Is there still somebody around in the cairo community who is willing
> and able to make a release ?
>
> I can roll a 1.18 tarball if that is what it takes, and I can put it
> in the same place as GTK releases
> (on
> download.gnome.org <http://download.gnome.org>), but I cannot upload
> it to the usual place for cairo releases (on freedesktop.org
> <http://freedesktop.org>).
>
> If I do that, though, the NEWS file in that tarball will come with a
> big note that cairo is dead, and advise
> users to look for alternatives. The current situation is untenable.
>
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