[fpc-devel] [RFC] Modernising the FPC Release Process -- Proposal for Review

[Marco van de Voort]

Op 16-4-2026 om 00:30 schreef Tomas Hajny via fpc-devel:
>
> As somebody having been involved in that role in the past (see 
> https://wiki.freepascal.org/Release_Template and e.g. 
> https://wiki.freepascal.org/Release_2.0.4), I can say for sure that 
> the release coordinator / release master / ... certainly doesn't need 
> to know all the details of the compiler, RTL and everything else at 
> the same time :-) - this isn't the issue. From my experience, making 
> sure that people who can tackle specific tasks blocking the release 
> (should it be particular manual steps in the release building process, 
> or fixing some issue which popped out during the build), find needed 
> time for addressing the needed things, is the biggest obstacle. 

Amen.