Re: Team updates needed for the 2009 Q3 GNOME Quarterly Report

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Here's the release team report -- I wrote it this morning in the train,
sorry for the delay.

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For the release team, the third quarter started with the last 2.26
release, which went out on July 1st. The focus then quickly became the
2.27 development cycle that would lead to GNOME 2.28.

Five GNOME 2.27 releases were published during those three months, and
the usual freezes (API/ABI, feature, user interface, string) were
applied to help the community focus on getting a high quality release.
In july, a meeting was held where one of the main topics was the new
modules that would be included in GNOME 2.28.
   
This release contains a good balance between integration of pre-existing
applications (gnome-bluetooth), great new tools (gnome-disk-utility),
and new external dependencies that will allow developers to provide even
more great features (seed, webkit, DeviceKit-disks, libchamplain,
libgdata). GNOME 2.28.0 went out as scheduled on September 23rd.

In parallel of all those releases, we monitored the progress of GNOME on
a few goals like, for example, the cleanup of modules to stop using
deprecated libraries and APIs.

We also modified the release schedule to move the module proposal period
and the decision on module proposals earlier in the cycle, in response
to feedback from some maintainers and also to help evaluate earlier what
GNOME 3.0 would consist of.

Looking ahead, the release team already has a good amount of work 
planned for the next quarter: there will of course be a first update to
GNOME 2.28, with 2.28.1 which will be released at the end of October,
and also the first versions of the 2.29 releases. A good number of new
modules were proposed for inclusion during the 2.29 development cycle,
and discussion around those proposals will help the release team decide
what will be going in during a meeting at the beginning of November.
Another meeting in November will be dedicated to GNOME 3.0: we will
evaluate if 3.0 can be ready for March 2010 or if waiting six more
months is needed to ensure that 3.0 is of high quality, as expected by
our community and our users.
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Vincent

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