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Frederic Peters | 5 Feb 00:53
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GNOME 2.25.90 beta release!

GNOME 2.25.90 Beta Release
==========================

This is the sixth development release, and the first beta, towards our
2.26 release that will happen in March 2009.  By now most things are
in place, and your mission is easy: Go download it. Go compile it. Go
test it.  And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

With this release, we are now even more frozen; developer API/ABI were
already, and at this point all new API are hopefully documented; no UI
changes may be made without approval from the release team and
notification to the documentation project, and no new features without
approval from the release team.  We also remain in the string change
announcement period -- all string changes must be announced to both
the gnome-doc-list and gnome-i18n lists.

To compile GNOME 2.25.90, you can use GARNOME [1] (which supports users
and has additional/different modules available), or the jhbuild [2]
modulesets [3] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official
release):
 [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/
 [2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
 [3] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.25.90/

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.25.5 and 2.25.90
are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release:

platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS
desktop  - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS
admin    - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS
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Frederic Peters | 5 Feb 01:03
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Freezes, a reminder

Hello all!

It was hinted in the 2.25.90 announcement I just sent but I might as
well make it clear in a brand new message, we just entered UI freeze,
no UI changes may be made at all without confirmation from the release
team and notification to the documentation team (gnome-doc-list@).

There is a nice summary at http://live.gnome.org/Schedule and here is
a copy of the current situation wrt freezes:

Freeze        Status           Full Freeze Starting on...
------        ------           --------------------------
API/ABI       Frozen           Jan 12
Feature       Frozen           Jan 19
UI            Frozen           Feb 02
String        Announcement     Feb 16
Code          Open             Mar 09

If you are not sure what they are about exactly there is this page for
you: http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Freezes (and you should
certainly not hesitate to ask).

Cheers,

        Frederic
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devel-announce-list@...
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Frederic Crozat | 13 Feb 14:10

TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 2.25.91 beta + strings are frozen

Hello all!

Tarballs are due on 2009-02-16 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 2.25.91
beta release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Modules which were
proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so
everyone can test them.  Please make sure that your tarballs will be
uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will
probably be too late to get in 2.25.91. If you are not able to make a
tarball before this deadline or if you think you'll be late, please send
a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll the tarball
for you!

Also we enter string freeze on February 16th, no string changes may be
made without confirmation from the translation team (gnome-i18n@) and
notification to release team, translation team, and documentation team.

Don't forget UI freeze is already in effect :  no UI changes may be made
at all without confirmation from the release team and notification to
the documentation team (gnome-doc-list@).

This will be the second beta release, and it will be used to write the
release notes, those are important, they help the press people make nice
and correct articles about the great changes done during this cycle, so
have a look at http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap and make sure your module
roadmap page on live.gnome.org is up to date.

For more information about 2.25, the full schedule, the official
module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 2.25
page:
   http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable
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Frederic Crozat | 18 Feb 23:46

GNOME 2.25.91 beta release!

GNOME 2.25.91 Beta Release
==========================

This is the seventh development release, and the second beta, towards
our 2.26 release that will happen in March 2009.  By now most things
are in place, and your mission is easy: Go download it. Go compile it.
Go test it.  And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

With this release, we are almost completely frozen; developer API/ABI
were already, and at this point all new API are hopefully documented;
no UI changes may be made without approval from the release team and
notification to the documentation project, and no new features without
approval from the release team; no string changes may be made without
confirmation from the translation team and notification to release
team, translation team, and documentation team.

To compile GNOME 2.25.91, you can use GARNOME [1] (which supports
users and has additional/different modules available), or the jhbuild
[2] modulesets [3] (which use the exact tarball versions from the
official release):
 [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/
 [2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
 [3] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.25.91/

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.25.90 and
2.25.91 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this
release:

platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.25/2.25.91/NEWS
desktop  - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.25/2.25.91/NEWS
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Vincent Untz | 27 Feb 06:04
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TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 2.26.0 Release Candidate (2.25.92)

Hey hey hey!

Wow, it's been quite some time since I last sent a tarballs due mail.
The last one was in November... I'm pretty sure many of you were glad to
escape mails with some completely off-topic text, which is also
definitely not interesting. I have good news! This has changed: it's
still off-topic, but it's now officially interesting. Seriously. You can
ask a magic ball, it will confirm it. It will also confirm that Daniel
Siegel is German -- not that this is bad, he's just denying this fact
without any reason. But well, since Daniel has brought us Cheese, maybe
we should just pretend to agree with him? I can already hear people
saying "of course, a french guy loving cheese... what a surprise!"
Right. What can I say? But I think everybody should grab some cheese
while working on some last minute fixes for 2.25.92. Or maybe people
could take a picture of themselves with Cheese instead, and publish it?
After all, everybody should be proud of working on what will become
2.26.0, and showing how you work can only be a good thing!

And, hrm, please don't forget to work on critical bugs ;-)

This will be our last release before the 2.26.0 release, so everybody
should try to make it perfect: if there's any critical bug, you should
try to fix it soon so that the fix can make it in this release.

Please note that Hard Code Freeze will start on March 9th. After this
date, no source code changes can be made without approval from the
release-team (translation and documentation can continue).

Tarballs are due on Monday March 2nd before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME
2.26.0 Release Candidate (2.25.92), which will be delivered on
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