Re: Prerelease alert

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

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.

>  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/