>> [...] I think it would be helpful if FreeType (and more open source
>> projects) tagged bugfix releases more often.
Tagging is the easy thing, but doing the release process is tedious,
for which I often lack time and, admittedly, energy.
> We should probably look at the patches applied on top of previous
> releases as well and see what important things should be moved into
> a release branch. I'll file a bug for this with more details. The
> main question will be how long do we support older releases, and
> what goes into fixes (I would suggest only security fixes as a
> starting point).
Having a helping hand in doing releases would be very, very helpful...
Werner