Re: Time for 0.95 pre-release?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 20:55 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> On 27.01.2006 18:50, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:56 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> >
> > > If you are following dia cvs [1] or bugzilla [2] you may have noticed
> > > the bug count almost continously decreasing in the last weeeks.
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if it's feasible to do a pre-release in about a week.
> > > If you think there are more bugs to fix [3] please build from cvs
> > > and provide patches or report open issues ;-)
> > >
> > > Although there are some new features [4] the top priority of
> > > Dia 0.95 should be stability.
> >
> >
> > I agree it is time, nay, high time!  Had my GTK not been in need of an
> > update to compile the newest CVS, I would have made one myself.  But I
> > admit I haven't scanned the newest bugs yet.  
> As trying to note above I'd like to follow a little more formal release
> process this time. Similar to what is described in dia cvs:
>
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dia/RELEASE-PROCESS?view=markup
>
> Having a pre-release without previous notice or without looking at
> the current state does not look that useful to me.

I wasn't announcing pre-release yet, just saying it's close enough we
should consider what's left to wrap up, which I think is little.

> > Hopefully this weekend, nothing is planned for it yet:)
> Together we should be able to shake out quite a bunch of the
> remaining bugs ;-)

Getting a new GTK installed is my first priority.  Compiling Dia is a
help towards fixing bugs.

-Lars

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