XFce Release Team

[Ric]

--- Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at student.uni-siegen.de>
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are looking for people who are willing to form an XFce
> Release Team. 
> This is to have the developers get some more free time
> during the 
> release days (BETAs, RCs and final releases). It would be
> nice if some 
> of you would like to join the Release team. I think 3-5
> people would be  ok.
> 
> The Release Team would do the following things:
> 
> 1) test the release for one or two days (compiling and
> running on  various machines)
> 2) plan the announcements and prepare the announcement
> texts (and yes, 
> we only want *one* freshmeat announcement)
> 3) making packages for various distributions (and
> notifying package 
> maintainers, e.g. NetBSD, FreeBSD and Debian maintainers
> (Martin are you still with us?), of the new release)

I might be able to assist in that (3) endeavor.  Mandrake 9
here and already have (fixed) SRPMS & RPMS for beta 1 that
seem to be working AOK(and SRPMS should work for MDK 9.1).


> 4) send the release announcements and do advertising

Well, I could certainly notify cooker people at MDK and
others.

> 5) enjoy with the rest of us and be proud to be part of
> such a great  project :-)

I can definitely do that. :)

Ric 
> So, if thought of how to contribute to XFce without doing
> programming task, heres your chance ;-)
>
> Benedikt
> 
> -- 



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