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Vincent Untz | 4 Mar 20:40
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GNOME 2.26.0 Release Candidate (2.25.92) Released!

GNOME 2.26.0 Release Candidate (2.25.92)
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My friends, we're nearly there! 2.26.0 will be out in two weeks. Yes, it
will! I tell you so. And it will be a milestone in our history. Sure, it
will! You don't doubt it. Because it's looking quite good. It definitely
does! Ask around you to check. And people will love it. That's for sure!
Make people try it. But we can still work a bit more on polishing GNOME
for the prime time.

In the next ten days, we should all try to focus on the list of
showstoppers [1] and try to close as many of them as possible. It's
also a good time to help Davyd write the release notes [2] -- this is
quite important to get some good material explaining what we've been
working on in the last six months.

  [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-February/msg00149.html
  [2] http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2009/02/27/Getting-the-GNOME-2.26-release-notes-ready

You all know what you have to do now. Go download it. Go compile it. Go
test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

To compile GNOME 2.25.92, you can use the jhbuild [3] modulesets [4]
(which use the exact tarball versions from the official release):

  [3] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
  [4] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.25.92/

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.25.91 and 2.25.92
are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release:
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Vincent Untz | 7 Mar 13:20
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Hard Code Freeze starting on Monday

Hi,

On Monday evening (March 9th at 23:59 UTC), we'll enter hard code
freeze: no source code changes are allowed without approval from the
release team, but translation and documentation should continue. Simple
build fixes are, of course, allowed without asking.

As a reminder, current freezes in place for the 2.25 development
release:

  + API/ABI Freeze
  + Feature Freeze
  + UI Freeze
  + String Freeze
  + Hard Code Freeze (starting Monday)

The freezes will always be listed on this wiki page:
    http://live.gnome.org/Schedule

Thanks,

Vincent

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Vincent Untz | 14 Mar 09:02
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TARBALLS DUE (before Monday 23:59 UTC!, don't forget translators!): GNOME 2.26.0 Final Release

Hi all,

That's all folks! 2.26.0 is just a few days away, which means it's
nearly party time! Yay! Okay, it's not too late to commit translations
or documentation, or to convince the release team to let this tiny patch
fixing a bug in. But focusing on the party is a good idea too ;-) Just
make sure to release a tarball for 2.26.0 so that users from all around
the world can see this string in their own language!

Tarballs are due on Monday March 16th before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME
2.26.0 Final Release, which will be delivered on Wednesday.

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 2.26.0. If you are not able to make a tarball before Monday 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!

We encourage everyone to help with the smoketesting effort. We will
publish jhbuild modulesets on Tuesday at:
    http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.26.0/

If you find a bug that you believe might be a blocker, please send a
mail to the release team.

For more information about 2.25, the full schedule, the official module
lists, please see our 2.25 page on the wiki:
    http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyfive

For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see:
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Stormy Peters | 17 Mar 14:45
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Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Call for Participation

The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, co-hosting GUADEC, the GNOME Conference, and Akademy, the KDE conference, invite you to participate in the inaugural Desktop Summit, from July 4th to July 10th 2009, in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.

This year's conference represents the first time that Akademy and GUADEC will be co-hosted, the core theme of the conference is "the Free Software desktop". The GUADEC planners invite talks from developers on core technologies which enable new ground breaking functionality, application developers building cross-desktop applications for Linux, and GNOME visionaries plotting the future of the computing user interface. We also welcome presentations by people from GNOME related projects, users of GNOME technologies and from our partner projects.

We are asking for four types of submissions:
- 30 minutes presentations on GNOME topics
- 30 minutes presentations on cross-desktop topics
- 5 minutes lightning talks
- BOF and workgroup proposals

We invite people to submit abstracts for 30 minute presentations about GNOME or cross-desktop topics to guadec-papers <at> gnome.org, including your name, biographical information, and a photo suitable for the web, and a title and description of your presentation, of under 400 words.

We also welcome informal proposals for 5 minute lightening talks to be held on Saturday July 5th and proposals for BOFs and workgroups which will be held from Tuesday July 7th until Friday July 10th. Proposals for lightning talks and BOFs will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis, in the limits of available space. Please send your proposals to guadec-papers <at> gnome.org.

The deadline for submissions is Friday April 10th, 2009.

Successful candidates will be selected and notified by the organizing committee by April 24th, 2009.

More information at http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/callforpapers

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Vincent Untz | 18 Mar 20:54
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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.26!

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              Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.26!
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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.26, the
latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment
and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME
2.26 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to
offer the best experience to users and developers.

For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous
amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous
version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.26, which is probably the
best compliment the project can receive.

This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world:
hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists,
translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and
testers. GNOME would not exist without all those people. Thanks very
much to every one of them!

You'll find detailed information about GNOME 2.26 in our release notes:

   http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/

Most distributions have already started integrating GNOME 2.26 in their
development version, or as package updates to their stable version.

Some parties are already happening in various places to celebrate this
release. But tomorrow morning, you can be sure that GNOME contributors
will already be working on their plans for the next version of GNOME,
due in September, 2009.

Enjoy! And be proud of this release!

- The GNOME Release Team

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Lucas Rocha | 19 Mar 12:04
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GNOME to migrate to git

The GNOME Release Team would like to announce that git will be the new Version
Control System (VCS) for GNOME. In our opinion, the decision reflects
the opinion
of the majority of our active contributors.

In December 2008, Behdad Esfahbod organized the GNOME DVCS (Distributed Version
Control System) Survey on behalf of the GNOME Foundation board of directors,
Release Team, and Sysadmin Team with the aim of better understanding
familiarity and preferences of our active contributor base regarding the future
VCS for GNOME. The survey results[1], released in January 2009, show that git
is by far the preferred DVCS for the majority of our active contributors - the
main users of GNOME infrastructure. Elijah Newren has made an in-depth analysis
of the results[2].

Since January 2009, a group of brave contributors (Owen Taylor, Kristian
Høgsberg, Behdad Esfahbod, Federico Quintero, and others) have been working on
the migration of our Subversion repositories to git[3]. The git migration team
is documenting their progress at:

 http://live.gnome.org/GitMigration

The new git.gnome.org server is now in good shape and contains a functional
preview of all GNOME git repositories. The official migration of all our
Subversion repositories to git will take place just after the 2.26.1
release, on April 16.

The git migration team is now working on sorting out the last details of the
migration and providing complete documentation on how to use git on daily GNOME
contributions (for documentors, translators, developers, etc). By migrating in
the very beginning of the 2.27.x development cycle, we'll be able to work out
any issues very early in the development cycle and give enough time for
contributors to get used to the new VCS.

We realize that git is not perfect, and that the transition will require
significant and important changes to many GNOME processes. With that in mind,
we hope that more community members will step forward to help making the process
as efficient and painless as possible. We'd like to invite the community to:
a) help us to provide accurate documentation for documentors, translators and
developers; b) test the preview repositories in git.gnome.org and help the git
migration team on finding and fixing any issues in the repositories you work
on. For instance, modules using svn externals need decision from their
respective maintainers[5].

If you'd like to help, subcribe to gnome-infrastructure[4] and report/discuss
any issues you find there.

Cheers!

The GNOME Release Team

[1] http://www.gnome.org/~behdad/dvcs-survey/
[2] http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2009/01/03/gnome-dvcs-survey-results/
[3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-January/msg00137.html
[4] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
[5] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2009-March/msg00054.html
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