Hi all,
With the 0.41 Hard Freeze finished and the release package posted, it's time to move into the final phase of the release, where we post packages and submit PR to blogs and the news media.
Kees has been kind enough to take responsibility for producing the Windows and static rpm packages. Since these are often the most frequent downloads, I'm comfortable doing the announcement sooner than usual, however I'd like to provide packagers at least a full day to create platform specific packages.
If you are comfortable creating packages, you can help us greatly right now by downloading the release and creating a package for your system. For example, we need packages for old and new versions of SuSE, Fedora Core, Mandrake, Slackware, and (especially) Mac OSX.
Information on creating packages is available here:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CreatingDists
If you have access to upload to the file tracker directly, please do so. If not, feel free to send me or another admin the package and we'll ensure it gets posted.
For PR, I have written the following announcement. Please review/revise. It will be released tomorrow night my time:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseAnnounce041
Bryce