In general, each stable release of Straw should deliver progress and no regressions in:
- stability and quality
- features
- standards and platform compliance
- desirability to users
Before a release
- testing
- English language and translations
- migration function for all user data from the previous versions
- feedback from distro package maintainers
Releasing
- increment version number in code and documentation
- publish a tarball
- update wiki, web site, rss feed, blog