On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Aaron Patterson <[email protected]> wrote: > ZOMG HI EVERYBODY!!!! HAPPY WEDNESDAY (UTC-7). > > I am EXCITED, PLEASED, and even MORE EXCITED to announce the release of the > Rails 3.0.8 released candidate NUMBER ONE! > > ## OMG RELEASE CANDIDATE. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? > > This is a release candidate! It means that we (the rails core team) are > asking > *you* (our lovely users) to test out the code that we'd like to release! > > This is your chance to VETO our release of Rails 3.0.8 final! > > ## VETO?? WHY WOULD I DO THAT? > > Well you see, dear public, let me explain. In order to bring you this latest > and greatest released of rails, we've made bug fixes and changed codes. > Unfortunately, that means that we may have inadvertently broken your > application. We don't want to break your application, we want to fix bugs! > > This is your chance to try our the release candidate and let us know if we've > broken your application! > > ## HOW DO I TEST OUR YOUR WONDERFUL AND AMAZING RELEASE CANDIDATE? > > Very simple! If you're using bundler, just update your Gemfile to point at > rails version '3.0.8.rc1'. Then do a `bundle update`, and you're off to the > races! Make sure your application behaves normally, all your tests pass, etc. > > ## I think I've found a boog! How do I veto??? > > It's easy, breezy, beautiful, to veto! Just reply to this on the [rails-core > mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?pli=1), and let > us > know what went wrong! We'll fix the problem and cut another release > candidate. > > Make sure to check that your failure does not occur on Rails 3.0.7, but *does* > occur on the release candidate. If the failure is also on 3.0.7, we still > want > to know! It just won't block our release. > > ## TELLME THE CHANGES YOU'VE MADE! > > Ok, just calm down. For now, go check out this link on github: > > https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v3.0.7...v3.0.8.rc1 > > Or go check out the CHANGELOG files in each project. When we release the > final, > I'll add the changelog to the announce email. > > ## WHEN WILL THE FINAL RELEASE BE??? TELL ME NOW!!! > > Typically we release the final version 72 hours after the release candidate. > But this weekend is a holiday, so I don't feel like doing a release this > weekend. Instead, I will target the final to be released on March 31st.
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Did I say "March"? I meant "May". Despite my excited tone, I *may* actually be dead tired. -- Aaron Patterson http://tenderlovemaking.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
