As the subject says... Today (21st of December 2012) is the long awaited day. The day that users in the doom of the world as we know it... and means that E17 gets released.
zmike (discomfitor/zmike/mike - mr. blumenkranz) is the front-man for this. He's there to do the release (and take all the blame :)). lfelipe (luis/felipe... mr. moraes) is the chosen bringer of doom for EFL 1.7.4. i want you 2 to coordinate today. make sure that EFL 1.7.4 comes out and is ready on or before when E17 is ready. ensure any and all last fixes are in EFL for E17 release. ensure all the README's, changelogs, NEWS etc. files are good. ensure configure.ac's have the right version. distcheck gets passed etc. you know the drill. don't forget anything. pass around a pre-release amongst your fellow devs for verification before you get it out. make sure that there is a news item in the www tree. make sure your send the email announcement with the right versions and links (re-read it 3 or 4 times before you send it out). for translators... this is your last chance. zmike will try pick up what last patches he can. massimo will too (seriously - massimo is like an unsung hero of the intl stuff in e17... we undervalue him way too much!). at this stage small patches that fix things go in.. big stuff is just going to be punted most likely. even then small patches can break stuff, so re-read the patches several times and test them heavily or rip them back out again at the slightest sign of something fishy. we can ALWAYS do 0.17.1 and 1.7.5 etc. if you can - please be on irc ALL day until you can't stay awake anymore. for me - that will be early, then again i may just pull an all-nighter as i have to be up at 4am tomorrow anyway. unknown right now. please make sure your mail client is checking mail often today (preferably every few minutes or more). today is the day. tomorrow you can rest. if there is a tomorrow. :) i have been pulling together an about page on e17: http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/e17 it's in svn. it has scary stuff... like content. this is not a tweet. (throw in some laments here about the abysmal attention span of todays generations here, then some grumbling about how everything was better in my day etc.). it wont cover everything... but it'll be a good start that's current with todays release. it's in svn. people can commit improvements to it over time. if you do - please ensure that any screenshots are consistent. ie default theme/setup. i have been using a xpehyr 1025x600 and scaling down to 50% size for the shots (dropshadow is a identical sized rect, dragged 2 pixels down below the shot and then blurred gaussian blue 8 pixel radius and that shadow layer at 75% transparency in gimp fyi). to everyone - now is a great time to clean up anything else. the rest of the website in svn probably needs some going-over for content, links and facts. this is a job that is easily distributed and parallelized - the website is in the www tree. in trunk of svn. also don't forget trac wiki - there are pages. edit/fix/delete/etc. ... divide and conquer. and then when the release is up.. mail is out... it's publicity time. everyone can take part. post to your favorite news agregators (reddit, digg, slashot, whatever). poke your favorite tech reviewers. write blogs. burn cd's with efl +e17 on them and give them out as christmas presents to your family and friends. prod your local package maintainers to update packages for your distribution. go to the pub and buy a round of beer for everyone to celebrate "e17 release day" (and then get odd stares where they realize they can't make fun of you because you just bought them a beer, and they either think this is a joke or don't even know what e17 is, but yet need to appear grateful for the beer). good luck toops. pants on. :) MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAH -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
