The release process is ready to now move to the Frost phase.

1.  Open development.
                   √ Triage and prioritize bugs report this year
                   √ Itemize regression bugs found since last release

2.  Chill.         √ Development focuses on wrapping up
                   √ Disable features that aren't finished
                   √ Identify 'make distcheck' issues
                   √ Identify any critical OSX/Win32 packaging issues
                   √ Identify remaining writing needed for Release Notes.
                   √ Regressions Bug Hunt:  500 points
                   √ Update tutorials and other docs

3.  Frost.         √ Experimental Branch is forked
                   √ Mainline Branch focuses on stabilization
                   √ Only production-ready code committed to Mainline
                     Post inkscape-0.91-pre0.tar.gz
                     Finalize any major changes to platform packaging
                     Release Notes should be >90% filled in.
                     Inkscape must pass >90% of 'make distcheck'
                     Start an About Screen contest
                     General Bug Hunt:  1500 points
                     Post additional inkscape-0.91-pre*.tar.gz releases
                     Packagers test creating pkgs of the -pre* releases

Mainline Branch
===============
During the Frost period, developers should not commit changes to
mainline unless the change improves the overall stability of Inkscape
or is needed for packaging or to fix distcheck issues.

Use your judgment as to what is "safe".  If you're unsure, email me or
Josh before committing and we'll make case-by-case decisions.  As a
general rule of thumb, if your commit doesn't specify a LP bug #, then
it should probably be signed off on by josh or I.


Experimental Branch
===================
The Experimental Branch is now forked.  You can check it out via:

    bzr branch lp:inkscape/experimental

This is an official (but temporary) branch, for freely merging all
development work.  Please treat it as you would mainline when we're not
in release, and strive to keep it buildable and usable.

In particular, all merges of GSoC branches and other sponsored
development work should target this experimental branch instead of
mainline.

Bug reports will be accepted for the experimental branch.  These bug
reports will be EOL'd when the experimental branch goes EOL.


About Screen Contest
====================
Josh, can you and Ryan work on organizing this?  This contest will need
to be completed before we enter Freeze.


Make Distcheck
==============
Last I checked we had some distcheck issues, which will need to be
resolved before we release.  Basically just run `make distcheck`
and work on sorting out the errors and warnings that print out.


Bug Hunt
========
This time around, any bug filed against Inkscape is fair game.  I'll be
posting stats on Mondays.  This next Monday I'll explain this in more
detail.  I'll start the count as of May 5th.


Packaging
=========
If you are working on packaging improvements, please continue to do so,
with the goal of having it all in working order by the time Frost is over
(probably several weeks from now).

Bryce


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