GNOME 1.4 Rel Eng Minutes - Jan 22, 20001

["Dan Mueth" <dan eazel com>]

  Minutes for the GNOME 1.4 Release Committee meeting Jan 22, 2001
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Present:
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  Maciej Stachowiak (co-coordinator of 1.4, chair)
  Jacob Berkman     (co-coordinator of 1.4)
  Ian Peters        (co-coordinator of "extra apps")
  Jamin Gray        (co-coordinator of "extra apps")
  Dan Mueth         (documentation, minutes)
  Greg Corrin       (co-coordinator of PR)
  George Lebl       (co-coordinator of 2.0) 
  Karl Gaffney      (coordinator of QA) 


Absent:
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  Kjartan Maraas    (translations)


Decisions:
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  * Created GNOME 1.4 release schedule.
  * Will hold weekly meetings


Work Done:
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  ACTION: Maciej will ask board to approve PR and QA coordinators.
          -> Done.
  ACTION: Maciej to update 1.4 package list.
          -> Done.
  ACTION: Ian and Jamin to release "extra apps" list.
          -> To be completed. (In progress.)
  ACTION: Jacob will patch gdm2
          -> George is almost done with gdm2.  Still some bugs to work out.


Work in Progress/To Be Done:
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  ACTION: Maciej will send Greg and Leslie a list of changes and features
          in GNOME 1.4
  ACTION: Greg and Leslie will create draft press release and send it to
          the Board of Directors and GNOME 1.4 Rel Eng Team
  ACTION: Maciej will send PR team 1.4 feature list and release schedule
  ACTION: Maciej will set up GNOME 1.4 bugzilla
  ACTION: Jacob will branch gnome-core HEAD into gnome-core-1-4 and release
  ACTION: Ian/Jamin will prepare announcment of "extra apps"
  ACTION: Maciej will bring release schedule to the Board of Directors for 
          approval
  ACTION: Maciej to announce addition of xalf and sawfish
  ACTION: Maciej will create "GNOME 1.4 Release Engineering" module in 
          bugzilla.gnome.org


Agenda Items Left For Next Meeting:
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Agenda:
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Review of Previous Action Items:
  * Extra apps list is coming soon
  * George needs to fix xdmcp for gdm2

GNOME 1.4 PR:
  * Greg and Leslie need list of features for press release
  * Maciej will send out feature list to PR team and gnome-1.4-list
  * 1.4 release engineering team will review press release for technical 
    accuracy
  * GF Board of Directors will approve final release 
  * We need to arrange interviews with various key contributors for the media
  * Ask Miguel to talk about bonobo, as a new feature which many people
    don't understand
  * Ask Darin to talk about Nautilus
  * Ask Havoc and Andy to do interviews

GNOME 1.4 Release Schedule:
  * Proposed release schedule
	2-1   Branch libraries into -1-4 and freeze, aside from bug fixes
	2-8   Branch/freeze other parts of GNOME which will be released
	2-15  Release GNOME 1.4test1
	2-25  GNOME 1.4test2
	3-5   GNOME 1.4test3
	3-15  GNOME 1.4test4
	3-25  GNOME 1.4final
  * Approved schedule
  * Hold meetings every Monday at 11AM PST
  * Create "GNOME 1.4 Release Engineering" module in bugzilla.gnome.org