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Olav Vitters | 1 Mar 2012 10:03
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Google groups BANNED from <at> gnome.org

In case people have an alias on  <at> gnome.org:
I banned  <at> googlegroups.com from sending mail to  <at> gnome.org. Spammers
setup an "Google Group", then send their spam via that group. Google
groups sends each message with a different "smtp from" / return-path, so
it is not easy to block this.

As Google has done absolutely nothing to block such behaviour, I have to
resort to completely banning  <at> googlegroups.com.

I've also banned a few spammers, but that is just usual maintenance.

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Frederic Peters | 3 Mar 2012 14:39
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TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 3.3.91 beta release, and string freeze

Hello all,

We are getting close to 3.4.0, here's the call for your 3.3.91
tarballs, make sure to get them on time!

  Tarballs are due on 2012-03-05 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 3.3.91
  beta 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 3.3.91. 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!

This is also your last chance to get a tarball out with new strings
before the string freeze (but do not forget there are other freezes
and new or changed strings should be announced).

Once the string freeze sets in, no string changes may be made without
confirmation from the i18n team and notification to release team,
translation team, and documentation team. From this point, developers
can concentrate on stability and bug-fixing. Translators can work
without worrying that the original English strings will change, and
documentation writers can take accurate screenshots. For the string
freezes explained, and to see which kind of changes are not covered by
freeze rules, check
http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes.

For more information about 3.3, the full schedule, the official
module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 3.3
page:
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Olav Vitters | 16 Mar 2012 09:32
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TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 3.3.92 release candidate + HARD CODE FREEZE

Dear all,

Coming Monday is the last change to get your fixes in, after that: hard
code freeze. Meaning: Just one commit means not only the usual vim+git
activity, but also requires a big bunch of approvals to get that fix in.

Now you've been working on your favourite code for almost 6 months since
3.2. You'd probably like some appreciation for that. We like that too,
but, please, check if we haven't forgotten your contributions and check
the (still changing) 3.4 not-even-alpha quality release notes at:
  http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.4/
To get in: gnome / 3.4. To anyone not from GNOME: feel free to read, but
it is all lies until the password protection has been removed.
If you do notice your contribution is missing or there are outright
lies, either write something down in the wiki at:
  https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/ReleaseNotes
or send an email to marketing-list@...

and now for the usual:

We would like to inform you about the following:
* GNOME 3.3.92 rc tarballs due
* Hard Code Freeze

Tarballs are due on 2012-03-19 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 3.3.92
rc 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 3.3.92. If you are not able to
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Christophe Fergeau | 18 Mar 2012 20:22
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Re: Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2012

Hey everyone!

GNOME has been officially accepted by Google as a mentoring
organization for GSoC 2012, which means some students will be paid by
Google during the summer to help us improve GNOME :) The student
applications will start coming in on March 26th and the deadline for
applications is on April 6th (a bit less than 3 weeks from now).

In the mean time, here are a few things you should do if you want to
mentor some students during the summer:
* add yourself as a potential mentor for GNOME on the GSoC website (
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 )
* add GSoC ideas for students to https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Ideas
* build a list of simple bug/features the applying students can try to
fix (we require students to contribute a bugfix or a small feature to
the project they are applying for)
* guide students who would like to work with you during the summer

For this last part, I generally tell students that the first steps
toward an application are to try to think about what they want to work
on (the idea list can be helpful here), and that the first steps
toward a successful application is to manage to build the project they
want to hack on, and that they should start looking into fixing simple
bugs.
Then interacting with the student, and telling him/her to start
thinking about what they will put in their application (especially the
project schedule) is always a good thing :)

If you have more questions about all of this, feel free to follow up
on soc-mentors-list, or to ask on IRC. You can find us on #soc.
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Javier Jardón | 23 Mar 2012 15:45
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GNOME 3.3.92 Release Candidate released!

Hello all,

It's the last step, it's the latest release candidate, it's 3.3.92!!
So, what are you waiting for? Download it! Build it! Test it! Try to break it!
The more you are, the best we can make GNOME 3.4. Coming next week!

To compile GNOME 3.3.92, you can use the jhbuild [1] modulesets
published by the release team [2] (which use the exact tarball
versions from the official release).

 [1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
 [2] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.3.92/

We remind you we are string frozen, no string changes may be made
without confirmation from the l10n team (gnome-i18n <at> ) and notification
to both the release team and the GNOME Documentation Project
(gnome-doc-list <at> ).

Hard code freeze is also in place, no source code changes can be made
without approval from the release-team.  Translation and documentation
can continue.

The release notes that describe the changes between 3.3.91 and 3.3.92
are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release:

core - http://download.gnome.org/core/3.3/3.3.92/NEWS
apps - http://download.gnome.org/apps/3.3/3.3.92/NEWS

The GNOME 3.3.92 release is available here:
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Andre Klapper | 27 Mar 2012 21:21
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Propose new features for GNOME 3.6!

GNOME developers!

Now that you've packaged your tarballs for the soon-to-be-released shiny
GNOME 3.4.0, the release team asks you to come up and discuss new
platform-wide features to be added for GNOME 3.6!

Please add your plans for the next six months here:

      https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features

Proposed features must have an assignee working on them.
The proposal period is planned to end in about a month (Apr 23th).

Feature proposals are about the core desktop, hence this does NOT affect
features on a per-module basis. Still we highly encourage you to
communicate your plans for your module early by adding them here: 

      https://live.gnome.org/RoadMap

Thanks a lot!,
andre
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Matthias Clasen | 28 Mar 2012 16:20
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GNOME 3.4 released

                    GNOME 3.4 Released
                   ====================

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 3.4, the latest
version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop and of its developer
platform. This timely release marks the first birthday of GNOME 3.

GNOME 3.4 is the second major update of GNOME 3. It builds on the
foundations that we have laid with 3.0 and 3.2 and offers a greatly
enhanced experience. The exciting new features and improvements in this
release include a new virtual machine and remote access application, a
completely revamped web browsing user experience, integrated document
search, first-class web applications, better graphics tablet support,
application menus, and many more.

For more information about the major changes in GNOME 3.4, please visit
our release notes:

 http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.4/

GNOME 3.4 will be available shortly in many distributions. Live images
of GNOME 3.4 are currently being prepared and will appear soon at:

 http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/

This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the
world: developers, designers, documentors, usability and accessibility
specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists,
users and testers. GNOME would not exist without all those people.
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Matthias Clasen | 29 Mar 2012 12:05
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3.5 development opens

Hi,

with the 3.4 release out (and it was a really smooth release, thanks
everybody), the hard code freeze is now lifted. Now is a good time to
make 3.5 plans, write feature pages if you have interesting features
that you want to work on, and dive into new development. But please
create gnome-3.4 branches first, to keep strings and UI stable for
3.4.1.

Matthias
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