[m-rev.] review: document new release naming scheme and announce 10.04 beta release

[Julien Fischer]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Peter Ross wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've made available the 10.04-beta release at petdr at neptune:~/10.04-beta
> It includes the index.html file.
>
> It needs to be copied to the relevant locations on the ftp and www
> sites.
>
> I can't do it because I don't have permissions.

I'll look into this once the issue below has been dealt with.

> I also need the changes to the website to be reviewed.
>
> ===================================================================
>
>
> include/download.inc:
> news/newsdb.inc:
> 	Announce and document the new release naming scheme.
> 	Announce the release of the first 10.04 beta.
>
> Index: include/download.inc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/include/download.inc,v
> retrieving revision 1.5
> diff -u -r1.5 download.inc
> --- include/download.inc	23 Nov 2005 02:47:44 -0000	1.5
> +++ include/download.inc	4 Feb 2010 01:30:32 -0000
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> <H2>How to get Mercury</H2>
> +<? $next_beta_version="10.04-beta" ?>
>
> The Mercury compiler is free software, and is distributed under the
> terms of the GNU General Public License.
> @@ -9,10 +10,14 @@
> <H3> Current stable release </H3>
>
> The most stable release will be a <em>numbered release</em>,
> -such as 0.10.1, 0.11.0 or 0.12.1.
> +such as 0.10.1, 0.13.0 or 10.04.
> These releases have been extensively tested, and often have
> pre-compiled binary packages for easy installation.
> <p>
> +The stable release naming scheme was 0.1 up to 0.13 for the first thirteen stable releases.
> +In February 2010 the Mercury project decided to name each stable release by using the year and month of the release.
> +For example 10.04 is for a release made in April 2010.
> +<p>

The versioning policy for Mercury is in the file named VERSION.  Please
update that.  This change should also be announced in the NEWS file.

Julien.
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