[RELEASE] 4.2.0 tarballs available

[Benedikt Meurer]

Hello everybody,

As you might have seen on distrowatch already (whoever is responsible 
for that: A release happens, when the announcement hits the website!!!), 
the 4.2.0 final tarballs are available for packagers and mirrors (some 
of them already picked up the tarballs). I decided to do both .tar.gz 
and .tar.bz2 this time (like Brian suggested). The .tar.bz2's are 
slightly smaller. All-in-all, the whole release is a bit smaller than 
RC3 due to the removal of the out-dated docs... and last-time default 
theme changes. ;-)

Olivier, please prepare the RH/Fdr/SRPMs and upload the stuff to 
sourceforge (hide it, I'll un-hide it when 4.2.0 is released) and 
xfce.org, so mirrors can sync them as well.

For the other packagers: The release time is Sunday ~18:00h (CET), maybe 
earlier, maybe later. Therefore, it would be nice if you could finish 
the binary packages in the meantime and reply with a short notice, so we 
can update the download page (same for the mirrors, tho it would be nice 
if the mirrors could wait until olivier uploaded the RPMs/SRPMs, atleast 
the non-source-only mirrors).

Brad (I CC'd you with this email, because I wasn't sure if you are 
subscribed to the list), please don't upload new ebuilds too early. At 
best, upload them, so that they become available on sunday evening 
(CET), because else I'm afraid several portage users will repeat
distrowatch's mistake. Is that possible? It would be perfect! ;-)

Again (as some people still don't seem to have understand the meaning of 
a Release Date): This is _NOT_ the 4.2.0 Release! These are the tarballs 
for the Release, but the Release happens when the Release Manager says 
its done (which at minimum includes an up-to-date website)! Please don't 
announce 4.2.0 release until you see the "4.2.0 is released!" 
announcement on the mailinglists! This is not funny; we've spent a lot 
of time and effort for 4.2.0, and its really sad to see that some people 
don't respect that.

greets,
Benedikt