В Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:37:12 +0000, David Chisnall написа: > On 08/01/2019 06:57, Josh Freeman wrote: >> On Jan 7, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Ivan Vucica wrote: >>> This is version 0.27.0 of the GNUstep GUI library ('gnustep-gui'). >> >> Thank you, GNUstep maintainers & contributors, and congratulations >> on the new releases! > > And especially thanks to Ivan for pushing the releases out
I concur -- many thanks to all GNUstep developers and especially Ivan for doing the releases in time for the Debian transition freeze. TBH (I always strive to be), I didn't believe that this was achievable. For the first time in my life the stars align right; it took an incredible sequence of events to make it happen. My sponsor was quick enough to upload the packages to Debian experimental within 24 hrs (I used the pretests that Ivan published to prepare the packaging changes), then Gürkan pestered the Debian ftpmasters on IRC and the new packages were accepted within a few hours by the Debian Project Leader himself (who whappens to be ftpmaster as well). Finally, I managed to build-test all reverse dependencies in time (using two machines) and apply for a full GNUstep transition two days before the deadline, which was approved and conducted successfully (albeit with a few problems, mostly because of our experiment early in the development cycle to try co-installation of different library versions). > probably the least fun part of open source development. I beg to differ here. The process of releasing, although often stressful due to the additional administrativia stuff and sometimes done under pressure (as it certainly was the case this time), is when you make your work available to the general public -- and this should be a moment of joy. You share your changes, putting a stamp on them, and it makes you feel like you did something good, at least to some part of humanity. This is how I always felt as a free software (occasional/minor) contributor; perhaps for an open source developer the feeling is slightly different. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep