[Cython] Cython 0.17 final released

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, congratulations and thanks for keeping such an important
> project moving forward!!
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What about making a 0.17 branch, on which we can do 0.17.1, etc. if
>> necessary. I don't think we're to the point of needing to backport our
>> bugfixes to previous releases, but that will make things clearer. When
>> the 0.18 series is ready, we can make a new branch and work on the
>> release from there (possibly merging in master frequently, but not as
>> a requirement). Alternatively name it bugfix and let it be regularly
>> merged into main, but we can cut minor releases from it. (Release is a
>> bit ambiguous as to its relationship to the other branches).
>
> In case it's of any use to you guys, feel free to grab our tools for
> that; we follow precisely that pattern and we're just about to cut a
> backports-only 0.13.1 release soon:
>
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/tools/backport_pr.py
>
> Min wrote this tool and from what he tells me, it has really minimized
> the overhead of keeping a clean backports-only branch available for
> release.

Thanks. Just to clarify your process is to merge the fix into the main
branch, and then backport it by creating a new commit (with the above
script) for the old releases?

- Robert