#1373 Issue `closed`: Preparation to release ReaR 2.1¶

Labels: enhancement, fixed / solved / done

jsmeix opened issue at 2017-06-02 09:50:¶

Accumulative issue for anything that we should do
in preparation to release ReaR 2.1
like documentation updates etc...

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-02 09:52:¶

@gdha is currently working on the release notes for 2.1:
https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/commit/df371d91fcf6549c88ab64f8f785c0783116a9a2
https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/commit/7c43771945dc5cea002ef4daa4e5f64283ff2e13

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-02 09:53:¶

@gdha
just tell me when I should do some proofreading

gdha commented at 2017-06-03 08:35:¶

@jsmeix Please check out http://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/release-notes-2-1
You can always add/modify some bits in the release notes. Once you are done I will prepare an official release of ReaR

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-06 13:40:¶

@gdha
see https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/pull/8
for my proofread release notes for ReaR release 2.1

gdha commented at 2017-06-06 14:21:¶

@jsmeix @schlomo Do you want to add something to the man page. Personally, I think experimental stuff should not yet be added. What is your opinion?

schlomo commented at 2017-06-06 14:33:¶

Looks good to me

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-06 14:43:¶

Experimental functionality or work-in-progress stuff
should not be officially documented
(in particular because it may change arbitrarily).

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-07 09:11:¶

@gdha
I added two comments regarding possible typos to
https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/fd4336609da10388a9de0c0bc927d9b3f72e2fae

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-07 09:25:¶

@gdha
could you add the new-style openSUSE distributions

openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed

to the list of supported Linux based operating systems.

What do you think about dropping official support
for the old-style openSUSE distributions

openSUSE 11, 12 and 13

?

But I would like to keep SLES11 as supported.
This would somehow contradict to drop support for
openSUSE 11, 12 and 13
because SLES11 is based on openSUSE 11.1
so that when SLES11 is still supported the old-style
openSUSE distributions should also still work.
But I never test ReaR on those distributions.

gdha commented at 2017-06-07 10:55:¶

I've made it like:

Rear-2.1 is supported on the following Linux based operating systems:

* Fedora 24 and 25
* RHEL 5, 6 and 7
* CentOS 5, 6 and 7
* ScientificLinux 6 and 7
* SLES 11 and 12
* openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed
* Debian 6, 7 and 8
* Ubuntu 12, 13, 14 and 15

Rear-2.1 dropped officially support for the following Linux based operating systems:

* Fedora <24
* RHEL 3 and 4
* SLES 9 and 10
* openSUSE <13
* Debian <6
* Ubuntu <12

Like this OpenSuSe 13 is an open question - it may or may not work.

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-07 11:12:¶

Thanks!
Perfectly o.k. for me.

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-08 10:44:¶

Should I fix
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1376
before or after the 2.1 release?

gdha commented at 2017-06-09 07:23:¶

As rear-2.1 has been released at OBS on Jun 7th we can announce the release as of today (I was unable to do that yesterday)

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]

#1373 Issue closed: Preparation to release ReaR 2.1¶