There is no release manager! There is no release manager!

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> For the next release, I think we need version 1.7.0, not 1.6.1,  
> because there are countless new features and a year's worth of bug  
> fixes. That much work deserves more than just a bugfix version number  
> increase. That means we release from trunk, not the 1.6 branch.

So shall we close all the fixed tickets that have been left open pending
the fix being merged into the release branch?

> A  
> concern of mine is that the 1.6 branch contains some work that was  
> done only there and not on trunk. I believe some of it was done on  
> trunk in a different way, but I don't know if all changes from the  
> 1.6 branch got put in trunk. Someone needs to figure out whether it  
> was, and if not, identify what needs to be ported from 1.6 to trunk.  
> Ideally that would happen before a 1.7.0 release.

I believe the only work done on the 1.6 branch was in the postflight
script, and IIRC, Rainer merged that back into trunk.

- Josh