[Pm-utils] Release?

[Victor Lowther]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 01:34 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/4/1, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 09:13 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> > > 2008/3/27, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>:
> >  > > Well, it has been a few days, and no-one has raised any objections.
> >  > >
> >  > >  Richard, would you be alright with creating a new release branch and
> >  > >  tagging it as a release candidate this Sunday if there are no
> >  > >  objections?
> >  >
> >  > What date do we target the release? If we have a few days left, I'd
> >  > like to integrate the man pages for
> >  > pm-suspend/pm-is-supported/pm-powersave which Tim and I wrote for
> >  > Debian (and maybe bringing them up-to-date to the latest changes, like
> >  > documenting new variables such as DISABLE_HOOK)
> >  > They are written in docbook/xml (requiring xmlto). I'd also like to
> >  > upgrade the existing docbook/sgml docs to docbook/xml.
> >
> >
> > I would be fine with that.  I considered trying to merge the manpages
> >  from the Ubuntu package in, but then I got distracted by other things in
> >  the code and never got around to it.
> >
> >  If you would not mind adding a line about intergrating those manpages in
> >  the TODO file (for tracking purposes), that would be great.
> >
> 
> I'm currently preparing the 1.1.0-1 release for Debian and during that
> process I'll also update the man pages. After that I'll merge them
> into the upstream branch and also convert the existing documentation
> to the newer docbook-xml format (so we don't need two doc processing
> tools).
> 
> >  > Nothing to really delay the release though. If we plan to release a
> >  > 1.1.1 soon, I'd be fine with waiting for that release.
> >
> >
> > Unless there is an urgent bugfix, I am going to target May 1 for the
> >  next release of pm-utils. I expect it to mainly consist of bugfixes and
> >  documentation updates, with only minor (if any) featureset changes.
> 
> Ok, that's enough time for me to make the above changes ;-)

Sounds like a plan.  If we do not get much feedback beyond "this is
awesome!!one!" I will move the release date up.

> Michael
> 
> 
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Victor Lowther
Ubuntu Certified Professional