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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 6d7878ac..1c671126 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -5,6 +5,28 @@ successful with your contribution if you visit the [IRC channel](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sway&uio=d4) upfront and discuss your plans. +## Release Cycle + +There are three stages of a sway release. Say the current stable version is +0.7. The master branch of sway is working towards becoming the 0.8 release. 0.8 +will go through each of these three stages: + +**In development**: during this time 0.8 lives in the master branch and is +considered unstable. All pull requests merged during this time will land in sway +0.8. + +**Release candidate**: at some point (usually when development is fairly quiet), +@SirCmpwn will announce an upcoming release candidate (often 2 weeks in +advance). When the two weeks are up, a branch is cut (i.e. 0.8-rc1) and from +that point only bugfix pull requests land in this branch. Each morning, if +bugfixes landed in 0.8 during the previous day, a new RC is cut. During the RC +phase, more adventurous users are encouraged to upgrade and start looking for +and reporting bugs (especially in new features). + +**Stable release**: when no substantial changes are merged into an RC for 1 +week, it's released as a new stable version of Sway. At this point, all users +are encouraged to upgrade. + ## Pull Requests If you already have your own pull request habits, feel free to use them. If you |