[cairo] Release management for Cairo

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Sun, 2021-04-25 at 18:12 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

Hi Emmanuele,

> So, I guess my question is: would this plan be acceptable to the
> people still involved with the development of Cairo?
> 
> If it is, I'd be happy to work on:
> 
>  - merging the Tanis branch
>  - cleaning up the documentation, and updating it to the current
> status
>  - refactoring the test suite so that it can properly run on the CI
> pipeline
>  - going through the API reference and ensuring that it's up to date
> and correct
>  - fixing the cairo-www repository, and using GitLab pages for
> publishing the content
>  - doing a new development snapshot

I don't have a long history in the cairo community. I've just been
looking after the Meson port and the CI setup and a few patches here
and there recently. I mostly work on the GStreamer multimedia framework
where we ship Cairo on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, mostly
for text rendering and graphics overlay rendering.

I think what you propose is great and pretty much matches what I think
needs to be done going forward. I was going to propose similar things,
just in a more piecemeal fashion. Happy to see you've already done a
lot of that work.

I'd be happy to help close whatever gap in functionality remains
between the autotools build and the Meson build, and also pitch in with
any CI/release script stuff.

Cheers
 Tim
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