[Unison-hackers] draft NEWS, licensing clarification, release plan

[Benjamin Pierce]

Yes, the license / conventions explanation looks fine to me.

   - B

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 7:04 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

>
> * NEWS
>
> With help from Tõivo, I have prepared NEWS for the imminent (perhaps
> even this month) 2.51.4 release.
>
> (I had meant to put it on a feature branch in my fork, but somehow git
> pushed it to the main repo, and I can't force-push the old ref, so I'm
> just going with it.  I intend to normally make changes via the PR
> process.)
>
> So please have a look and tell me what's wrong/missing, including
> replacement/new text I can use.
>
>   https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/blob/master/doc/changes.tex
>
> * LICENSING
>
> Prompted by some offlist discussions, I've added a description of
> licensing.  This is meant to say how it is and has been, for people who
> don't have a habit of listening to Free Software licensing podcasts for
> fun, and is not meant to be a policy change.
>
> I'd specifically like a nod (or objection) from Benjamin and everyone
> else is of course welcome to comment.
>
> https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/pull/536
>
> https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/pull/536/commits/6b21600c75fa0a962b38a8216b2282d5732fb5b3
>
> * RELEASE PLAN
>
>   - a few manual edits (e.g. mailinglist info is old) that I'll just
>     amke directly
>
>   - merge the licensing PR or decide not to
>
>   - tag an RC and ask for testing on unison-users@
>     (If you are on hackers and not users, let me know, so I can send
>     that request here too.)
>
>   - adjust version number in manual and tag release
>
>   - As long as this heads for happening soonish, I would like to avoid
>     merging anything that isn't a bugfix relative to 2.51.3 or a doc
>     fix.
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