[RSN #5] GNOME Release Status Update... Your Recommended Dosage!

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

RSN #5: GNOME Release Status Update... Your Recommended Dosage!
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  What do we want? DOGFOOD! When do we want it? YESTERDAY!

We're currently in API/ABI and UI freeze, so it's definitely time to dogfood
- less than two months until the 2.2 final release! Every desktop component
is stable enough for daily use - the panel crashes a little bit, but pops
back up in a jiffy anyway. Ah, the wonders of session management...

  GNOME 2.1.x ... Everything else, is just a toy!

Meanwhile, we've thrown in another snapshot release for next week. Proper
announcement about that coming soon.


The Bugmeister: Luis Villa
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  - The bugsquad continues to kick much ass.

  - The bugsquad is still learning, so in some places these lists may not be
    as consistent as 2.0 lists were. That's quite fine, I believe, at this
    point; every member of the bugsquad is committed to learning more about
    the process and about consistency, so finding flaws in these lists is a
    good thing.

  - The 37 worst bugs, more or less. These should at this point be
    considered mustfix for 2.2. [This number has increased since the last
    RSN, but I think at least partially because of overzealous use of the
    keyword.]

      http://makeashorterlink.com/?B29521282

  - High priority 2.1 bugs. This is the candidate pool for 2.2 showstoppers,
    and may overlap with the set from the previous link.

      http://makeashorterlink.com/?R4E525282

  - High priority 2.0 bugs. If these are present in 2.1 they are part of the
    candidate pool for 2.2 showstoppers. This may overlap some with the
    previous link. [These last two numbers have remained roughly steady over
    the past two weeks.]

      http://makeashorterlink.com/?T5C516282

  - PATCH bugs for 2.1 and 2.0, respectively:

      http://makeashorterlink.com/?C618228A2
      http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q108218A2


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You don't have to feel like a small, wide-eyed child lost in a ginormous
shopping centre forever - the release team is here to help! Think of us as
the shiny, big red dot on the shopping centre map of GNOME.

     November 2002
  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                 (1) 2   RELEASE: GNOME 2.1.2 Snapshot
   3  4  5  6  7  8  9
  10 11 12 13 14 15 16
  17 18 19 20 21(22)23
 -24-25-26-27-28-29(30)- FREEZE: UI and API/ABI Freeze

     December 2002
  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa                                       .-------------.
  -1--2--3--4--5--6--7                                   <--/ YOU ARE HERE /
   8 (9)10(11)12 13 14   DUE/RELEASE: GNOME 2.1.4 Snapshot  `-------------'
  15(16)17(18)19 20 21   DUE/RELEASE: GNOME 2.1.5 Snapshot
  22 23 24 25 26 27 28
  29 30(31)              FREEZE: Hard String Freeze for i18n

      January 2003
  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
            1  2  3  4
   5 (6) 7 (8) 9 10 11   DUE/RELEASE: GNOME 2.1.90 RC1
  12 13 14 15 16 17 18
  19(20)21(22)23 24 25   DUE/RELEASE: GNOME 2.1.91 RC2
  26(27)28(29)30 31      DUE/RELEASE: GNOME 2.2.0 Final

- Jeff

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