Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 15:28:51 +0200 From: Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org> To: dia-list@gnome.org Cc: hallon@debian.org, mjl@netbsd.org, mark@openbsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, fcrozat@mandrakesoft.com, kloczek@pld.org.pl, ro@suse.de, alexl@redhat.com Subject: [Announce] dia 0.90 is released ! Message-ID: <20020601132851.GA3780@calixo.net>
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Hello all, Just a short note, to tell the world and even outer planets if they bother to pay attention, that dia 0.90 final is out ! It should reach its main distribution site, http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/dia/ in the next couple {minutes|hours} depending on the load of the GNOME FTP file-moving daemons. In the mean time, it is also located at the same place as the release candidates. Final is identical to yestermorning's CVS, which was identical to RC3 save for a couple Makefile fixes. I'm not very good at making speeches, even worse at making speeches in e-mail form, but I would like to congratulate and thank our previous maintainers, Alex Larsson, and James Henstridge, who are now busy in other (neighbouring) parts of the software galaxy. James passed the torch to Lars Clausen and myself for the 0.90 release. Before that, he did a lot for the project, and steered it towards the success it enjoys today! So, now dia doesn't have one maintainer, but two; by working as a pair, we hope to react to changes in our Real Life workload better than either of us would have. Of course, we are not alone: Hans Breuer (win32) and Steffen Macke (win32 installer) are still on board (I hope they'll find this a fun activity for a long time), and we of course welcome newcomers and less formally active but very present people who frequent the mailing list. Wow, it's fortunate I warned people I'm bad at speeches. Here is what I suggest for the next two weeks: * for the first week (starting now), I would like to cautiously lift the freeze which has been informally in force for the last (wow) two months. During this week though, I would like we remain capable to issue a new release with a very short notice (a brown-bag release). People will really mock my being traumatised by #52836, but we still get a half-dozen duplicates a week... I don't want to let an issue of this kind in the future. All the things which fix critical and non-critical details, but don't introduce a big feature or change an established behaviour are fine for that period, IMO. I'm thinking about the non-freetype font menu hack for small screen/fontful systems describe well the kind of patches I'm talking about. * assuming 0.90 passes one week with no huge problems, we could probably open the floodgates to semi-revolutionary things. There are at least two plug-ins waiting for detailed review and perhaps inclusions; we had last week a discussion about a print-time poor man's font matcher to handle EPS export in Simplified Chinese, I would like to code and merge this before it goes on my /dev/womdisk swapfile. You see what. * starting June 15-20, I would like to start a short 0.91.RC# campaign with the new stuff in, to be released in the beginning of July. If things go well, and people agree with me, 0.91 would be the basis for starting the migration towards gtk2.0/GNOME2 (the rule "it ain't exist if it ain't in sid" is still the primary guideline I follow). Of course, we are all humans, I'm a specially lazy human, and this will probably be amended by practice. I will try to make a gnotice and a freshmeat announcement sometime this evening. -- Cyrille -- Grumpf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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