move files back to develop mode

3 files changed, 59 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/Announce.txt b/src/Announce.txt
index 2ceb8bc..1359696 100755
--- a/src/Announce.txt
+++ b/src/Announce.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ So that everyone using SCons can help each other learn how to use it more
 effectively, please go to http://scons.org/lists.html#users to sign up for
 the scons-users mailing list.
 
-RELEASE 3.1.0 - Mon, 20 Jul 2019 16:59:23 -0700
+RELEASE VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
 
   Please consult the RELEASE.txt file for a summary of changes since the last
   release and consult the CHANGES.txt file for complete a list of changes
diff --git a/src/CHANGES.txt b/src/CHANGES.txt
index da238d7..b5b6652 100755
--- a/src/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/src/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,13 +4,6 @@
 
                             Change Log
 
-RELEASE 3.1.0 - Mon, 20 Jul 2019 16:59:23 -0700
-
-  From John Doe:
-
-    - Whatever John Doe did.
-
-
 RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
 
   From John Doe:
@@ -18,7 +11,7 @@ RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
     - Whatever John Doe did.
 
 
-RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
+RELEASE 3.1.0 - Mon, 20 Jul 2019 16:59:23 -0700
 
   From Joseph Brill:
     - Code to supply correct version-specifier argument to vswhere for
diff --git a/src/RELEASE.txt b/src/RELEASE.txt
index 54cdfe3..17e698f 100755
--- a/src/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/src/RELEASE.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,71 @@
 
           https://scons.org/pages/download.html
 
-  Here is a summary of the changes since 3.1.0:
+  XXX The primary purpose of this release ... XXX
+
+  A SCons "checkpoint release" is intended to provide early access to
+  new features so they can be tested in the field before being released
+  for adoption by other software distributions.
+
+  Note that a checkpoint release is developed using the same test-driven
+  development methodology as all SCons releases.  Existing SCons
+  functionality should all work as it does in previous releases (except
+  for any changes identified in the release notes) and early adopters
+  should be able to use a checkpoint release safely for production work
+  with existing SConscript files.  If not, it represents not only a bug
+  in SCons but also a hole in the regression test suite, and we want to
+  hear about it.
+
+  New features may be more lightly tested than in past releases,
+  especially as concerns their interaction with all of the other
+  functionality in SCons.  We are especially interested in hearing bug
+  reports about new functionality.
+
+  We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora,
+  etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the
+  "public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names.
+
+  Here is a summary of the changes since 1.3.0:
 
   NEW FUNCTIONALITY
 
     - List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released)
 
+  DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY
+
+    - List anything that's been deprecated since the last release
+
   CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
 
     - List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior
       wouldn't actually be considered a bug
 
   FIXES
+
+    - List fixes of outright bugs
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+    - List improvements that wouldn't be visible to the user in the
+      documentation:  performance improvements (describe the circumstances
+      under which they would be observed), or major code cleanups
+
+  PACKAGING
+
+    - List changes in the way SCons is packaged and/or released
+
+  DOCUMENTATION
+
+    - List any significant changes to the documentation (not individual
+      typo fixes, even if they're mentioned in src/CHANGES.txt to give
+      the contributor credit)
+
+  DEVELOPMENT
+
+    - List visible changes in the way SCons is developed
+
+  Thanks to CURLY, LARRY, and MOE for their contributions to this release.
+  Contributors are listed alphabetically by their last name.
+
+__COPYRIGHT__
+__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__