(Late) Gnome 2 release team minutes 2002-04-26

[hobbit aloss ukuu org uk]

So I thought Jeff was posting these, and he thought I was. 
Yay. 

Minutes of the GNOME 2.0 Release Team Meeting - 2002/04/26
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Present				Regrets/Missing
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John Fleck			Calun Benson
Karl Gaffney			Jamin Gray
Jody Goldberg			Kjarten Maraas
Telsa Gwynne			Michael Meeks
Greg Leblanc			Seth Nickell
Sander Vesik
Luis Villa
Jeff Waugh

Actions:
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  DONE: Greg to sort out access to gnome.org for Dermot.

  DONE: Jody and John to chat about docs co-ordination, and talk to Dan
        Mueth about it.

  DONE: Get updated schedule onto dotplan pronto.

  DONE: Inform mailing lists (desktop, hackers, docs, and i18n) of
        changed schedule. Kjarten will take gnome-i18n.


  PENDING: Add a link to Havoc's gconf documentation page on dotplan.

  PENDING: John to look at what would be involved to get API docs registering
        themselves with Scrollkeeper; and also to bring up gtk-doc
        changes on gtk-doc (?) list.


  NEW: Jody to look at a gnome-docs package which will include all the
	relevant docs/stuff. See discussion.

  NEW: Luis to talk to Heath Harrelson (?) about covering for him

  NEW: Sander to write up details of integrating Sun documentation

  NEW: Telsa/Jamin to collate the sort of changelog that Jamin posted 
	this time round so that it can be folded into release notes.


Decision and discussions
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* Docs build woes: Jody is looking at a package which would contain 
	all the doc-tools needed to build gnome. Possibly will include
	DTDs and stylesheets, but there are prons (fewer bugs reported
	in yelp etc if we do this) annd cons (overwriting XML catalog
	files is a very big deal).

* Luis will be away for the next ten days -- apologies in advance.

* The lack of viewports in sawfish is annoying either a lot of people
	or a few very vocal people. John Harper has posted a workaround
	to one of the lists for people who are happy editing config files:
	need to dig this out (probably on sawfish-list?) for people.
	Greg pointed out between meeting and these minutes that it is on
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-April/msg00423.html

* Schedule: Much discussion. Even with the schedule slip, we still
	have many many bugs. There is a discussion going on on
	gnome-hackers currently about this: do owe go for quality
	or "just ship it on date we say"? Quality. Latest (sigh)
	plan: start the three-week beta4 cycle from yesterday; slip
	in another three-week cycle in of beta5. RC1 on the 7th June.
	Two weeks then: because RC1 really should be releaseable. 
	Beta5 (RC-0?) packages due 13th, to release on 17th May,
	RC-1 packages due June 3rd to release on the 7th June;
	and then in theory not all the packages should not need
	changing and we should be able to reuse the vast majority
	of tarballs in the release (otherwise we are at risk of
	brown paper bags). Might be worth tagging CVS modules at
	this stage rather than at 2.0 stage so that changes can
	be tracked. Anyway, because we really should need very
	few changes at this stage, it will be a two-week cycle.

Telsa