Re: TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 2.5.1 Development Release

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Owen, are we going to get a gtk 2.3.1 release out for this? I'd really
like to get the xd-unstable users something a bit more robust than 2.3.1
and begin to get a better grasp on the quality of the current 2.3 stuff.

thanks-
Luis

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:11, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> So,
> 
> Welcome to the tarballs due announcement for the GNOME 2.5.1 Development
> Release. First things first, let's get the institutionalised police-style
> brutality out of the way. You may think of this as the vicious, unabating
> release team motivational exercise from hell:
> 
>                               THIS IS NOT NAM.
>                               THIS IS BOWLING.
>                               THERE ARE RULES.
> 
> They didn't teach you this in management school now, did they? DID THEY?
> Here ends the reading... IT'S TIME TO ROCK.
> 
> Tarballs are due this coming Monday, 8th December. Maintainers of proposed
> modules are strongly encouraged to make tarball releases. This is all about
> testing, testing, testing, and if your module hasn't had adequate testing
> before the freeze deadline (2004-01-12), the release team will have to nix
> it from the proposed modules list... You gotta be on the release train! Now
> for the summary:
> 
>                              2.5.1 TARBALLS DUE
>                             MONDAY, 8TH DECEMBER
>                             PROPOSED MODULES TOO
>                           OR WE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN
> 
> Here's a pretty calendar to scare your pants off:
> 
>      December 2003
>   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>       1  2  3  4  5  6
>    7 (8) 9(10)11 12 13  2.5.1, API/ABI Freeze
>   14 15 16 17 18 19 20
>   21 22 23 24 25 26 27
>   28(29)30(31)          2.5.2 tarballs due and released
>   
>       January 2004
>   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                1  2  3
>    4  5  6  7  8  9 10
>   11(12)13(14)15 16 17  2.5.3, Feature, Module and UI Freeze
>   18 19 20 21 22 23 24
>   25(26)27(28)29 30 31  2.5.4 tarballs due and released
>   
>      February 2004
>   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>    1  2  3  4  5  6  7
>    8 (9)10(11)12 13 14  Beta 1, String and Hard UI Freeze
>   15 16 17 18 19 20 21
>   22(23)24(25)26 27 28  Beta 2, HARD CODE FREEZE
>   29
>   
>        March 2004
>   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>      (1) 2 (3) 4  5  6  Release Candidate tarballs due and released
>    7 (8) 9(10)11 12 13  GNOME 2.6.0 FINAL
>   14 15 16 17 18 19 20
>   21 22 23 24 25 26 27
>   28 29 30 31
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff