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On 16 Feb 2010, at 23:22, Mark Hammond wrote:

>  What needs to be done before a release can be considered 'official'?  =
I'm happy to help do whatever is necessary to get an official 0.11 build =
for windows.

A release artefact is considered official when it has been voted on by =
the community.

The code that builds the Windows distribution artefact needs to be in =
trunk, and ideally integrated with the Autotools build system. Perhaps =
it makes sense to be able to run "make distsign" and have the regular =
tarball, as well as the Windows installer, placed in the root source =
directory. I'm not sure though, do you know of any projects that release =
UNIX-like tarballs and Windows installers? How do they do it?=