Re: Start 6.1 release process

[Rik]

On 02/17/2020 09:33 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 2/16/20 10:51 AM, Rik wrote:
>> Could someone merge the default branch on to the stable branch so that the
>> 6.1 release can start?  While working on bug #57799 (mkdir and rmdir always
>> return status output), I realized that there is a common code pattern which
>> is not Matlab compatible.  Fixing it will hit more than 6 functions and
>> that in turn will require changes to many other files which use these
>> functions; fixing rmdir alone required changes to 15 other files.  This
>> feels like too much change immediately before a release so I want to
>> continue this work, but on the development branch that will become 7.1.
>
> Seems good to me.  I also have some pending changes that are probably
> best done early in the development cycle instead of just before a
> release.  I will merge and update version numbers, buildbot, etc.
>
Thanks for the series of changesets.  Do we need to update API_VERSION in
configure.ac as well?  I'm wondering after looking at "Versioning Hints" at
the bottom of https://wiki.octave.org/6.1_Release_Checklist.  Maybe also
the library version numbers?

--Rik