<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:02 PM holger krekel <<a href="mailto:holger@merlinux.eu">holger@merlinux.eu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 16:46 +0000, Bruno Oliveira wrote:<br>
> I'm under the impression that 2.9 is meant to be released this week.<br>
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You mean this weekend or the coming couple of days?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was thinking the coming couple of days (say Thursday)... what do you think Ronny? </div><div><br></div><div>Hmmm on the other hand it would be nice IMO to make a release candidate and ask users to test it to get some field testing, so this might push the release further in the week...</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I guess it's ok although if it drags any further i'd very much<br>
appreciate if someone could "backport" the doc changes such that we can<br>
push it to <a href="http://pytest.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">pytest.org</a> rather sooner -- after all it's about<br>
getting some of the ~37K monthly users to the site to donate.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Backporting the doc changes would mean cherry-picking the changes in a branch over the 2.8.7 tag and making a 2.8.8 release... if 2.9.0 is not released next week we can go with this plan.</div><div><br></div><div>Another option would be to copy just the relevant html files to the live server... but that feels hackish. On the other hand is quick to do.</div><div><br></div><div>Bruno.</div></div></div>