A new release ?

[John Ralls]

On Oct 19, 2011, at 5:07 PM, John Ralls wrote:

> 
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 
>> On woensdag 19 oktober 2011, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Oct 19, 2011, at 4:56 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>> On maandag 17 oktober 2011, John Ralls wrote:
>>>>> On Oct 17, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Aurimas Fišeras wrote:
>>>>>> 2011.10.17 16:49, John Ralls rašė:
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>> what is the translation update deadline for 2.4.8? I'm working on
>>>>>>>> Lithuanian translation and I would like to see it included in 2.4.8.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When will you be ready? As long as it's sometime this week, I think we
>>>>>>> can wait for you.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I won't have a 100% complete translation sometime this week. My current
>>>>>> goal is to improve UI translation, since it is unusable in 2.4.7.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> How about if I submit what I have done to this mailing list by
>>>>>> 2011.10.19 17:00 (UTC)?
>>>>> 
>>>>> OK by me.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll run a trial make distcheck today, and plan to tag the release and
>>>>> do the real distcheck around 0900 PDT (1600 UTC) Thursday. I'll do the
>>>>> source tarballs and the MacOS dmgs. Geert or Christian, can you do the
>>>>> Windows zip and the release announcement Friday morning?
>>>> 
>>>> The Windows installer will be created automatically after you tag the
>>>> release. So friday morning it should be available on
>>>> http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/releases/
>>>> 
>>>> I am not available on Friday, but if the release notes can wait until
>>>> Saturday, I can do them Saturday. Otherwise, Christian or Phil feel free
>>>> to create the release notes on Friday already.
>>> 
>>> I think it would be better then if I tag it tonight, then. Derek's planning
>>> to move the servers tomorrow, and I don't think we want to have the need
>>> for a release build in the mix.
>>> 
>>> What time does the build run?
>> 
>> According to the build logs, the builds start at 2 AM, Derek's local time. The 
>> release build is a clean build and takes quite some time. The last one (2.4.7) 
>> ended at a little bit before 7 AM.
>> 
>> But as far as I'm concerned we don't need to rush. I don't mind if you tag the 
>> build on Friday and we release on Saturday.
>> 
>> That would give Cristian a little more time to include the latest version of 
>> the Latvian translation also.
>> 
>> But perhaps delaying a day is less convenient for you ?
> 
> Yes, this weekend is the GSoC mentor summit, so I'm pretty much booked for that... but I can tag Friday morning (or Thursday evening if Derek's got the servers back up) and build everything and get it up on SF, then you and Christian can finish up the release at your convenience over the weekend.

The release is tagged and the tarballs are uploading now. I'll start the OSX builds as soon as the tarballs are on SF, and upload them in the morning, along with the windows distro if a) no one beats me to it and b) I can find the darn thing. The OSX dmgs will also go up tomorrow morning (yes, afternoon for you europeans). I'll leave it to you all to:

* Make a release announcement.
* Update the per-OX download pointers on SF.
* Update the versions on the website. Be sure to change "OSX_latest_stable-Foo" to the unmodified version.

Regards,
John Ralls