Tuesday, July 29: Drupal 8.0.x being branched for semantic versioning

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Posted by webchick on July 18, 2014 at 10:15pm
Start: 
2014-07-29 12:00 - 14:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

On this date, the new 8.0.x branch for Drupal 8 will be created so we can start using the new Drupal release cycle in advance of beta 1.

Steps involved are:

  • drumm will create the 8.0.x branch
  • Existing issues will be moved automatically from 8.x-dev to 8.0.x-dev (this may take a couple of hours)
  • basic will patch Testbot to look at the new 8.0.x branch instead of the old 8.x branch.

After we're sure there is no fallout from this, the README.txt on the old 8.x will be amended to inform about the change, and then the 8.x branch will be removed entirely after a few days.

Core developers should do the following once the process is complete to ensure they're patching against the latest version of the code:

git fetch
git checkout 8.0.x

Woohoo!