Re: The release plan

[Matthew Guenther <mguenthe engr UVic CA>]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Pawel Salek wrote:
> Hi developers,
> 
> Here is my plan concerning the feature freeze for next stable version
> of balsa.
> 1. convert configuration format to gnome_config (drop libPropList
> dependency)
> 2. if there is any time left, use gnome-print for printing.
> 
> BTW, I am away from Sunday to Wednesday, so the exact date of the
> freeze
> doesn't matter but I expect that no feature patches will be commited
> after Wednesday. 
> 
> We can release then 0.9.5=x.x.pre1 and hammer the bugs as long as it it
> feasible (or go down to at most 30 in bugs.gnome.org) releaseing
> prerelease versions on a rather regular basis.
> 
> Any comments?
>

The spell checking is done, I just have to merge with cvs and commit.  This
should happen sometime within the next 24hrs unless I discover a major bug
in my code.

I also think we should aim for some serious stability, hopefully we can
avoid a repeat of the deluge of bugs after release situation.

MBG

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