Finally announcing 0.48.3.1?
Hi all, so today I was again approached by a user puzzled by the fact that 0.48.3.1 is shipped by most distro, yet our site still mentions 0.48.2 as latest stable. So I found myself a bit bold and proceeded with some action, after last discussion on this topic.
Just to recall a bit the issue, 0.48.3.1 has been released as stable in February. Linux and Win packages were ready in June, and in July we had a short vote about the severe lack of .dmg, whose outcome was: «Make announcements and apologize, while explaining why we have left out a group of our users.» This was already two months ago, nothing went out...
So, today I first committed to the web SVN an update of all links and labels, then I drafted a short announce explaining what's going on: http://titanpad.com/8eew4Q6uo2
Next step is to publish the announce and run a publish_web.sh to make it public, as I don't have powers to do this.
I'm sure it could be polished/expanded a bit, as I'm neither a native speaker nor the usual PR guy. But I fear that delaying this even more is damaging the project, so please let the ball start rolling.
Ciao, Luca
Have we actually agreed to announce?
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Luca Bruno <gnug.torte@...112...> wrote:
Hi all, so today I was again approached by a user puzzled by the fact that 0.48.3.1 is shipped by most distro, yet our site still mentions 0.48.2 as latest stable. So I found myself a bit bold and proceeded with some action, after last discussion on this topic.
Just to recall a bit the issue, 0.48.3.1 has been released as stable in February. Linux and Win packages were ready in June, and in July we had a short vote about the severe lack of .dmg, whose outcome was: «Make announcements and apologize, while explaining why we have left out a group of our users.» This was already two months ago, nothing went out...
So, today I first committed to the web SVN an update of all links and labels, then I drafted a short announce explaining what's going on: http://titanpad.com/8eew4Q6uo2
Next step is to publish the announce and run a publish_web.sh to make it public, as I don't have powers to do this.
I'm sure it could be polished/expanded a bit, as I'm neither a native speaker nor the usual PR guy. But I fear that delaying this even more is damaging the project, so please let the ball start rolling.
Ciao, Luca
Alexandre Prokoudine scrisse:
Have we actually agreed to announce?
Josh called for a vote on 15/06, which was intended to be run "for 1 week". It looks to me the deadline is over, but saw no summarizing e-mail. In the meanwhile Win packages have been pushed to SF too.
I did a bit of vote counting, first preferences on that thread were noted as follow: * Option 1: 0 * Option 2: 2 * Option 3: 5
So, to me it looks like we agreed on Option 3: «Make announcements and apologize, while explaining why we have left out a group of our users.»
Yet I see no action item coming out from that thread. I can surely revert my web commit and hide the draft in the middle of nowhere. But then I'd like to ask *WHAT* we are still waiting for, as we released this source 6+ months ago and we agreed to (at least) update the website 2+ months ago...
Sorry if I stepped into someone's shoes, but I'm fearing this has just been forgotten...
Ciao, Luca
Honestly, this was put on the back burner because of other more pressing issues and my having less time available more recently. For one, we have a known security vulnerability in our releases (rather bad actually)... 0.48.4 is literally waiting for a patch for that and it can be cut.
Hopefully JonCruz will chime in soon with a proper solution as he seems to have an idea of how to go about it.
I will hopefully be able to make an announcement later this week after dealing with board election stuff and keeping things moving for 0.49.
Cheers, Josh
Cheers, Josh On Sep 23, 2012 2:15 PM, "Luca Bruno" <gnug.torte@...112...> wrote:
Alexandre Prokoudine scrisse:
Have we actually agreed to announce?
Josh called for a vote on 15/06, which was intended to be run "for 1 week". It looks to me the deadline is over, but saw no summarizing e-mail. In the meanwhile Win packages have been pushed to SF too.
I did a bit of vote counting, first preferences on that thread were noted as follow:
- Option 1: 0
- Option 2: 2
- Option 3: 5
So, to me it looks like we agreed on Option 3: «Make announcements and apologize, while explaining why we have left out a group of our users.»
Yet I see no action item coming out from that thread. I can surely revert my web commit and hide the draft in the middle of nowhere. But then I'd like to ask *WHAT* we are still waiting for, as we released this source 6+ months ago and we agreed to (at least) update the website 2+ months ago...
Sorry if I stepped into someone's shoes, but I'm fearing this has just been forgotten...
Ciao, Luca
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