Early 2.2.7 release?

[Nathan Buchanan]

Hi!
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Nathan Buchanan <nbinont at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:05 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> > "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > >         Is it reasonable to consider an quicker-than-usual release of
>> 2.2.7?
>> > >
>> > >     Funny you should ask that.  Andreas and I were discussing that
>> > >     on IRC earlier today.
>> > >
>> > > I think an earlier release would not be a bad idea, as I imagine the
>> bulk of
>> >
>> > We came to the same conclusion.  The date bug in particular
>> > warrants a quick turnaround to 2.2.7.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>> OTOH, I will need at least one week to review the stuff pending.  I hope
>> to start this work this weekend.
>>
>> @Charles, have you checked whether there are interesting gnome package
>> updates?  Especially GTK+, ORBit2 and other such base packages may have
>> fixed some of the bugs happening on Windows.
>>
>> @Nathan, do you think we can release 2.2.7 on the next but one weekend,
>> i.e. 30th/31st of August.  Also, is there a way to set up regular builds
>> from branches/2.2 so that volunteers may test before we release?
>> (Windows builds are still more complicated than Unix ones).
>>
>
> Probably. I'll know better in a few days, but I'll plan for the 30th/31st
> weekend.
>
> I can setup regular builds for branches/2.2, possibly as early as
> Wednesday. I'm thinking of daily builds with a complete rebuild of all
> supporting libraries every friday. Does that sound suitable?
>

Well, what do I know...I set this up yesterday, and woke up to an "OS not
found" bios message this morning. Seems the hard drive is having issues. The
ETA for this is, well, undetermined at the moment :(.

Nathan

>
>
> Nathan
>
>>
>> Ciao,
>> -- Andreas
>>
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