Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Improving the GNOME experience : request for help

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le vendredi 08 juin 2007 �0:03 +0100, David Corking a �it :
> On 6/8/07, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> > On 6/7/07, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
> > > However, maintaining the project asks much time, and coding asks even
> > > more time, so I would like to request help for one specific task :
> > >
> > > 1) Prepare tarballs in case of release : ie Ekiga, OPAL and PWLIB
> > > tarballs
> > > 2) Test them (do at least minimal tests)
> > > 3) Upload to GNOME.org
> > > 4) Mail packagers
> > > 5) Build a repository
> >
> > Just thought I'd mention this: Basic instructions for 1, 3, and 4 for
> > modules in general are available at
> > http://live.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner/Releasing (those instructions
> > work for all the modules I've released, though perhaps ekiga, opal,
> > and pwlib having additional issues).  I'm not sure what 5 means.
> 
> Thanks Elijjah - I copied that link into the Ekiga wiki for our future
> reference.
> 
> For (5) I wrote: "The Ekiga Release Manager should make a repository
> of contributed binary packages, such as RPMs and DEBs, available to
> the webmaster of ekiga.org"
> 
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Release_Manager
> 
> When I get my SVN account, I still won't be touching the sources (even
> the changelog and news files) until I know I can do it to the
> satisfaction of the established developers - my job will relate to the
> tarballs and the announcements.
> 
> On the subject of announcements:
> a - do all the packagers track one of ekiga-list and
> gnome-announce-list, or are their other addresses that need cc'd?

Once the tarballs are available somewhere, you can mail the packagers.
(by private e-mail).

When we have enough packages, we usually do the release and announce it
everywhere (including gnome-announce-list).

> b - is it now deprecated to cross-post to the release-team list ?

I don't know :)

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