On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:37:55PM -0600, staff-gmail wrote:
Release 0.46 hopefully can be timed to get into the next round of distro releases, ie the H series of Ubuntu and Fedora 9. My guess is those cutoffs are around the end of the year but Bryce would know better. Which working backwards means a testing cycle starting at least a month or so before which means Nov which is not too far away. Leopard 10.5 should be out within a month or so, so the next release will make that.
Early February is the feature freeze for Ubuntu and GNOME. I don't know about F9, but F7 hit feature freeze in March, so roughly the same timeframe there.
Bryce, how hard would it be for a Feisty backport of a current build ? I'm willing to try to do this but thinking the scripts must be around somewhere.
Simply creating a .deb of a svn snapshot isn't too hard, assuming the tree builds ok and there haven't been a lot of new deps added; getting a snapshot version included into the backports channel takes a bit more coordination/testing work, especially if it's buggier than 0.45.1.
Bryce