Re: Prerelease alert

[Bruno Pires Marinho <bapm camoes rnl ist utl pt>]

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Bruno Pires Marinho wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> > Okay, we're planning to release Balsa in less than 24 hours, 
> > correct?
> > A little checklist I came up with:
> > 
> >  o Update webpages, software map, README, gnotices when it's 
> > launched
> 
> Please do not forget the gnome-announce-list and of course the balsa-list.

And the packges on the ftp.gnome.org. The redhat packages can have
multi-thread support compiled in and if people don't want it the just
build from the sources.

> >  o Check for coredumps
> >  o Last minute check for bugs
> >  o Add names to AUTHORS file and about box (ask Stuart)
> >  o Verify 'make distcheck' works
> >  o Commit last-minute bugfixes -- no new features for sure
> >  o Active developers 'sign off' to this list
> > 
> > Sound good? If we want to release on Tuesday we have to do this all 
> > pretty
> > quickly.
> > 
> > Six hours from now I will definitely have no more CVS updates to 
> > make. If 
> > there are any problems we must learn about them NOW to make sure 
> > our release
> > is good.
> > 
> > Updating the webpages -- is this possible? I think Stuart is the 
> > only one
> > who can write to the webpages. That might be a problem, unless 
> > Stuart checks
> > his mail real soon :-).
> > 
> > ==============================
> > Peter Williams peter@newton.cx
> > 
> 
>                                                Bruno Pires Marinho
>                                       http://camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~bapm/