On October 19, 2002 01:54 pm, Ian Clarke wrote: > For PR purposes, we need to decide which day we will do the 0.5 release. > > Getting good PR coverage is essential, as it will lead to wide > deployment and more donations with which we may be able to extend > Matthew's employment if he is interested in that. > > Journalists need to plan stories a couple of days in-advance, which > means that I need to warn them this-weekend if our release will be next > week. > > I am thinking Wednesday of next week. Any objections? Speak now or > forever hold your peace. > > If so, here is the timeline: > > * Monday - we need functioning versions of all deployment mechanisms > (ie. Windows webinstaller, Linux tgz, rpm, and (maybe) deb) > * Tuesday - Test everything to-death
In ONE day??? Its going to take a week to get this done right. I would suggest that we annouce rc1 on Wednesday, with the goal of releasing 0.5 a week from then. This will also encourage freesite operators to update their sites with up-to-date info. Just my thoughs Ed Tomlinson _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
