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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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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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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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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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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 | 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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Olav
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Vincent Untz | 28 Feb 2012 10:58
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GUADEC 2012 Call for Presentations

Hi,

The Call for Presentations for GUADEC 2012 is now open:
  http://2012.guadec.org/cfp

I've attached the full CfP below, but the two main things you should
know are:

 - you can submit your proposal at
   https://www.gpul.org/indico/abstractSubmission.py?confId=0
 - deadline for submitting is Saturday, April 14th

Cheers,

Vincent

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GUADEC is the annual conference of the GNOME community, held in Europe
since 2000. GNOME is the Free Software project that drives the user
interfaces of many GNU/Linux-powered devices, ranging from smartphones
to laptops, or personal media centers. This get-together event is the
world's largest gathering of those involved with the free desktop or
mobile user interfaces. GUADEC 2012 is expected to draw hundreds of
attendees who will discuss and direct the future of the GNOME project.
Developers, artists, translators, users, and representatives from
government, education, and businesses, and anyone else who shares an
interest are welcome.

For the 2012 edition, GUADEC comes to A Coruña in Spain, a city that has
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Christophe Fergeau | 26 Feb 2012 20:07
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Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2012

Hiya GNOME lovers!

It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is
approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all [1] but we need
your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will
start to roll in on March 26, but we'd like to make sure there are
plenty of projects from them to choose from and have mentors ready to
volunteer their time. Bonus point if you add ideas this week as it
makes it easier for us to write the Summer of Code application for
GNOME.

So what should you do? Please visit [2] and enter your project ideas
under the "Ideas" section.  A committee will be formed up
later to triage the ideas prior to the opening of the proposal period.

If you would like to volunteer your time to mentor but don't have a
project idea, surf over and claim one.  Mentoring is an awesome way to
get more involved with the community and introduce someone to it.

If you would like to throw your hat in the ring for the triaging or
selection committees and other GSoC related tasks, pop on over to
#soc-admin, join the soc-mentors-list and let one of the
administrators for the program know you want to be involved in making
GNOME rock.

This year's administrators team hasn't been formed yet, so if you want
to be part of it, by all means, volunteer!

Cheers,
 The GNOME Google Summer of Code Administrators
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Piñeiro | 24 Feb 2012 15:50
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GNOME 3.3.90 released

GNOME 3.3.90 beta is available.

This release marks The Freeze. See 3.3 schedule to check what that
means:

    https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree

GNOME 3.3.90 beta
============

To compile GNOME 3.3.90 use jhbuild [1] and the moduleset files used
at this release [2]:

   [1] http://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/3.2/jhbuild.html
   [2] http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/3.3.90/

You can see what is new on this release checking the NEWS file of
those modules:

  core - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/core/3.3/3.3.90/NEWS
  apps - http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/apps/3.3/3.3.90/NEWS

You can get the code here:

  core - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/core/3.3/3.3.90/sources/
  apps - http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/apps/3.3/3.3.90/sources/

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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Olav Vitters | 22 Feb 2012 13:21
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Slow database server (affects Bugzilla)

Response of the database server has been slow due to piwik
maintenance. This unfortunately is taking a very long time. The
slowness impacts the speed of Bugzilla as well as other sites relying on
the database server.

As piwik instance was not setup for a high traffic website, the
current maintenance is needed, though unsure how long it will still
last. Until that is over, please be patient with Bugzilla.
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Frederic Peters | 19 Feb 2012 01:52
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TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 3.3.90

Hello all,

This is tarballs due time, but we're also hitting the big Freeze,
meaning API/ABI, UI and Feature Addition Freeze, as well as String
Change Announcement Period; new APIs must be fully documented, and
people start to assemble and write the release notes; exciting times.

Tarballs are due on 2012-02-20 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 3.3.90
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 3.3.90. 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!

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:
   http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable

For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see:
   http://live.gnome.org/Schedule

Thanks,

        Fred
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