Re: 0.95-pre1 uploaded

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 19:38 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> On 12.02.2006 19:01, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > I've just uploaded the first prerelease of version 0.95 to
> > http://download.gnome.org/sources/dia/0.95/.  
> Thanks for doing this. I planned to do it this weekend as well
> but was dragged away with other interesting stuff.

Thought that might be the case.

> > Please go ahead and try
> > it, and hopefully Steffen can put a Win32 version out soon.  We're
> > particularly interested in people who can reproduce bugs in 0.94 to see
> > if they can reproduce them in 0.95 too.  Note that GTK 2.6 is required
> > to compile.
> > 
> > At the same time we're having string freeze, so no changing strings
> > unless absolutely necessary for fixing a bug.
> > 
> > Unless there are serious bugs open still, 0.95 will go out next weekend.
> > 
> Although I'm pretty confident in the stability of our current code base
> I'd like less of a hurry here. Could we please try to follow our own
> document ( http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dia/RELEASE-PROCESS?view=markup )

I do.  This is the period from D+3 to D+10.  D was when I called feature
freeze.

> A settle time of at least about two weeks looks much more reasonable to
> me. Otherwise we could just do a 0.95 *now* followed by a series of
> brown bag releases ;)

Well, I have yet to see a pre1 make it to the final version.  Though we
may want to say a week from the Windows version comes out, as a) I think
we have more Windows that Unix users, and b) there's less testing before
pre* of the Windows things, so there's typically more Windows bugs
during prerelease.

> Also it appears as if there are no traces of 0.95-pre1 in the ChangeLog
> nor in the NEWS file. Or am I missing something?

That's my fault, I hadn't committed yet.  Done now.  Steffen, you should
use the just-committed version to get the correct version number.

-Lars

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