Do we release a beta3/rc1 these days ?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>Benny, i won't touch thunar, libexo or terminal i let that to you unless
>>you say otherwise.
> 
> I don't have time for a release right now. I'd vote to schedule 4.4rc1
> for September, 2nd (Sat). This way we have some time to fix critical
> bugs (i.e. Brian mentioned that he wants to change xfdesktop to use a
> GDBusProxy for the trash instead of also polling the trash, which would
> in addition fix the problem with the hanging menu, and so on). Also the
> translations are not fully updated yet.
> 
> I'd suggest therefore the following roadmap for rc1:
> 
>  - Translation freeze: 08/31 (Fr)
>  - Version bumps, tags: 09/01 (Sat)
>  - Tarballs, Installers, Announcement: 09/02 (Sun)
> 
> Non-trivial source changes should not be committed after 08/29, so we
> can do some testing (an rc1 should look somewhat stable) and also
> rethink certain details of the default setup to get closer to sane
> defaults for 4.4 (i.e. xfdesktop should display file icons by default if
> possible, etc.).

While talking about releases: What about i2t, Jannis? Any chance it will
be ready for rc1 with the above roadmap? If not, what would be needed to
finish it? Maybe people would volunteer to help developing/testing/fixing?

Benedikt