[RELEASE] 4.2.0 announcements and preliminary tarballs

[roger]

Hi,

Isn't there a minor typo error in Draft 3:
	Print manager (xfprint): The print dialog and manage(R?).
... or maybe "The print dialog, which manages/allows...".

Cheers,
Roger 

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 04:18, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> First: The complete freeze has been delayed until 2005/01/10 12:00h
> (CET) for two reasons: a) some translations aren't perfect yet and b)
> probably new default wallpaper. Release Tag will be moved on 2005/01/09
> after all translations and the wallpaper has been committed. Besides
> that, xfce_4_2 is frozen now and in good shape.
>
> I created source tarballs and Fedora RPMs today, without any problems,
> and so I don't expect other packagers to have problems, but please check
> them before 4.2.0 final tarballs are created. (the tarballs are only
> meant for packagers and porters, _NOT_ for general use!)
>
> I've put up a site dedicated to Release Engineering for 4.2.0 with the
> links for the preliminary tarballs and announcement texts here:
>
>   http://www.xfce.org/~benny/releng.html
>
> I'd like to invite everybody to help in improving the release
> announcements (esp. native english speakers to check the texts). In
> addition, we are looking for people to translate the release
> announcements into different languages, atleast the "short announcement"
> (Part I) and the "website announcement" (Part II).
>
> To make 4.2.0 a perfect release its necessary to coordinate the
> announcements, cause thats the first thing most new users will read and
> it makes up the initial impression, which is important to gain
> perfection :-). We'll therefore coordinate who sends an announcement to
> which news site. See the releng page for news sites that are already
> covered by other users, and drop me a short note if you want to send an
> announcement to another site. When sending the announcement, please use
> the official text (from the releng page, the announcement will be marked
> "official" when done) or a translated version and be sure to wait until
> the xfce.org website is updated and a mail about Xfce 4.2.0 has been
> sent to xfce4-dev@/xfce at xfce.org.
>
> For the record: Release date is 2005/01/16. The time may differ from the
> original plan, depending on spare time of the people involved in the
> last release steps.
>
> Thanks to everybody who is willing to help in the 4.2.0 final steps, and
> lets hope that everything wents as smooth as possible. ;-)
>
> regards,
> Benedikt
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