GNOME 2.27.91 beta tarballs due (and string freeze!)

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Hello all,

My laptop finally broke down but the new one is so fast I could
actually release GNOME 2.27.91 in five minutes; but then it would miss
the shiny new releases that you carefully planned for Monday, so I'll
refrain and follow the agreed schedule...


* TARBALLS *

Tarballs are due on 2009-08-24 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 2.27.91
beta release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Modules which were
proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so
everyone can test them.  Please make sure that your tarballs will be
uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that
will probably be too late to get in 2.27.91. If you are not able to
make a tarball before this deadline or if you think you'll be late,
please send a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll
the tarball for you!

We are *serious* about this, we really want your tarballs, especially
if you skipped the last calls and have interesting things in Git; and
if don't have time, or your build environment is broken, or whatever,
please do tell us so we can prepare tarballs.


* STRING FREEZE *

The other important thing is that we are now entering string freeze:

No string changes may be made without confirmation from the i18n team
and notification to release team, translation team, and documentation
team. From this point, developers can concentrate on stability and
bug-fixing. Translators can work without worrying that the original
English strings will change, and documentation writers can take
accurate screenshots. For the string freezes explained, and to see
which kind of changes are not covered by freeze rules, check
http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes.


For more information about 2.27, the full schedule, the official
module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 2.27
page:
   http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable

For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see:
   http://live.gnome.org/Schedule



Cheers,

        Frederic