[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Set release date for 2.8.0.

[Justin Pettit]

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 01:08:31PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
>> 
>>> On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:33 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
>>> ---
>>> This will be applied to both master and branch-2.8, to effectively release
>>> Open vSwitch 2.8.0.
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>>> index 8e6fb79d38ca..b85c351dd961 100644
>>> --- a/NEWS
>>> +++ b/NEWS
>>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>> -v2.8.0 - xx xxx xxxx
>>> +v2.8.0 - 31 Aug 2017
>>> ---------------------
>>>   - ovs-ofctl:
>>>     * ovs-ofctl can now accept and display port names in place of numbers.  By
>>> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
>>> index 08ba2223a4c3..95a875fbfee3 100644
>>> --- a/debian/changelog
>>> +++ b/debian/changelog
>>> @@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ openvswitch (2.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>>>   * Use debhelper for DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM.  Thanks to Clint Byrum
>>>     <spamaps at debian.org> for this improvement.
>>>   * New upstream version
>>> -   - Nothing yet!  Try NEWS...
>> 
>> I normally copy the NEWS items into here.  Do you think that's unnecessary?
> 
> There's nothing wrong with it, but it's pretty unusual in a Debian
> changelog.  Usually they just list Debian-specific changes, not upstream
> changes.

Great!  Less work for me going forward.

>> Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>
> 
> Since you are getting that last revert in for Flavio, and you usually do
> the releases, do you want to take over this patch, then?

Sure.  I'm happy to do that.

Thanks,

--Justin