[Clipart] Re: coordinate the new release

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:54 -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> writes:
> 
> > Jonadab (and others), lets coordinate the new release more closely,
> > as it would be good to get your feedback to make the release process
> > quicker, and also so that we can update the release process
> > instructions on the wiki.
> 
> Okay, I'm looking at my calendar here...
> 
> Hmmm...  Okay.  I work Saturday the 27th, which means I'm off
> Wednesday the 24th (eek, that's tomorrow already) instead.
> 
> So if I pull the incoming files on the 24th, it should be possible to
> get through Release Procedure steps 1-19 by Sunday the 28th, even with
> the large amount of new clipart this time.
> 
> >From what I understand of the INSTALL file in the clipart_package
> repository, this is roughly where the new makefile stuff picks up.
> (Am I pretty close to right on that?  Maybe the Release Procedure
> should be updated to reflect using the makefile stuff...)

Yes, I can work with you on the release procedure this time...or, do you
want me to just make revisions to the release procedure?

> That should give us time to get the various packages built and the PR
> done and so forth by the first of September, or thereabouts.

Cool...I think this is a good plan.

> Am I making sense?  Do we want to release on Thursday the 1st?

Yeah sure, lets hit it right on the nose this time!

Jon

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