4.2 BETA?

[edscott wilson garcia]

El mié, 22-09-2004 a las 02:09, Jasper Huijsmans escribió:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:46:21AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What are the outstanding issues for 4.2-BETA? My general feeling is that 
> > we should release either 4.2.0pre1 (or 4.1.0) immediately with whatever 
> > state CVS HEAD is in now. That should be followed up with additional 
> > BETA releases every fortnight until we have a consensus that 4.2 is 
> > releaseable. Roughly, we should be targetting Oct 31 as a release date 
> > for 4.2.
> > 
> > To achieve that, we should have a hard feature freeze starting now. 
> > Anything that is not in working condition in CVS HEAD should either be 
> > fixed immediately or removed. I don't think there's anything like that 
> > though ... CVS seems fairly solid to me.
> > 
> > What is the feeling on this?
> > 
> 
> AFAIK there are no problems with the panel (except a memleak when
> killing/restarting mcs manager, which I don't consider critical).
> 
> I'd like to use the 4.1.x notation for the beta releases. Actually, we always
> have this problem with overall Xfce version on one hand and specific module
> version on the other. Gnome solves this by adding a 4th number for the
> specific modules, but I don't think I like that.
> 
> Any thoughts on that?

I like the idea of the fourth number, especially since the last number
can be dropped on release (equal to zero). Thus developers can follow
the strict 3 number system but use 4 numbers when nobody is looking...

regards,

Edscott

> 
> 	Jasper
> 
> 
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