ANNOUNCE: Snowy 0.4 "King Charles Spaniel" Released, Tomboy Online alpha launches

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

Hey all

I'm pleased as punch to announce Snowy 0.4 "King Charles Spaniel", the
first release of the Tomboy Online private alpha!  The changes since
Friday's 0.3 release are small, but we are committed to using only
released software for Tomboy Online, which meant we had to get that
little fix in an official release.  Coincidentally, this corresponds
with GNOME 2.29.0, which is fitting as we travel the road to a webbier
GNOME 3.0!

Still, this is alpha quality software.  As the Tomboy Online alpha
continues, we hope to be able to make sweeping statements about its
stability and security, but until then, do not trust it with your
fancy notes without a backup.  ;-)

Tomboy Online invites are being emailed out in phases to everyone who
fills out this survey:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZleG05V196b3g4VUFSTHhzcTRFMmc6MQ

For the uninitiated, Snowy is a web-based viewer for your Tomboy
notes.  It's written in Python using the Django web framework, and is
licensed under the AGPL.

Tomboy Online is a deployment of the Snowy software on GNOME servers,
intended to provide free note sync and online note access to all
Tomboy users.

Please check out our website here:
http://live.gnome.org/Snowy

You can download the latest release here:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/snowy/0.4/snowy-0.4.tar.bz2

This cycle is shaping up to be very exciting as we work toward our
goal of releasing Snowy 1.0 and the Tomboy Online public beta in time
for GNOME 3.0.  Expect some awesome to be dropping in git, especially
around the time of the Snowy Hackfest (overlapping Boston Summit) in
November.

Version 0.4, "King Charles Spaniel", features:
* Port note XML -> HTML transform code from libxml2 to lxml (#631189)

Contributors to this release include:

Sandy Armstrong

You can see where we're planning on going by checking out our bug list:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=snowy

All help is welcome!  We'd especially appreciate help from web
designers to improve our templates.  Please join us on snowy-list, or
in #snowy on GIMPNet, and we'll help you get all set up.

Thanks for your support,
Sandy