FOLLOW UP
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- Release candidates DONE
- Contribute with translations updates.DONE
- New colored icons for layers from Yu Chen.DONE
- New past splash screen (light house from rylleman) DONE
- Official Release binaries and source package upload DONE
- Release Notes (RN) DONE
- The official RN must be published at synfig.org including screenshots, and possibly further explanations than the RN This is the Press Release (PR). (owner: genete) Needed English spell checking and style review.
- A short version of the PR should be spread out to the basic magazines and blogs. (owner: genete) It should include the link to the entry in the synfig.org article from the previous post. PENDING
- The PR and its short version should be translated to all the possible languages and should be spread out to other local magazines. (owners: wanted) French: Animtim
- Binaries created in the step 5) are for linux OS. Windows binaries (owner: pixelgeek) PENDING Ping other packagers (owner: wanted).
- Update the wiki with the new features. Update the wiki with the fixed features. Update the wiki again and again… Morn
Thanks to contributors!
-G
[size=85]Hi!
I’ve started the release procedure for 0.62.02.
There are pending things to complete in the application to be considered ready to release and I want to list them here to your knowledge and contribution:
Procedure schedule:
- Release candidate #1, #2, etc. As many as needed to polish the official release. (owner: genete)
- Contribute with translations updates. (owners: Translators). Suggestions for missing translatable strings are welcome.
- I would like to include the amazing set of new colored icons for layers from Yu Chen. (owner: jcome & genete)
- This time there won’t be splash screen contest. We have decided that only when major number change is produced there will be a splash constest. Meanwhile we will use finalists from other past contests. Select splash and modify code to allow that (owner: genete). Thanks to zelgadis for clean up the splash code an disable the dual splash screen.
- Once the releases candidates are enough to consider possible the release it is needed to modify the code again and produce the packages and binaries for the release. This include update the NEWS, COPYRIGHTS, AUTHORS and other files. This is the official release of the code and the start up of the new coding cycle. (owner: genete)
- Create a Release Notes (RN). There will be a official English plain text with the release notes that will be uploaded to SF. (owner: genete). Help is wanted for English syntax and spell check.
- The official RN must be published at synfig.org including screenshots, and possibly further explanations than the RN. (owner: wanted)
- A short version of the RN should be spread out to the basic magazines and blogs. (owner: genete) It should include the link to the entry in the synfig.org article from the previous post.
- The RN should be translated to all the possible languages and should be spread out to other local magazines. (owners: wanted)
- Binaries created in the step 5) are for linux OS. Windows binaries (owner: pixelgeek) Ping other packagers (owner: wanted).
- Update the wiki with the new features. Update the wiki with the fixed features. Update the wiki again and again… (owners: wanted) I’ll do my best with the really new features with the seed of the pages for them but the collaboration of all of you is absolutely needed.
As you can see there is not fixed schedule. All depends on how much you contribute on test the RC and update the translations and so. I would like to freeze the code (do not admit more bug fixes, translations or patches) at maximum in three weeks, so please contribute with translations and testing the RC.
As a novelty this time we will release a snapshot binaries for the bones development branch. It will be done just after the release of the code and will include all the polish of the 0.62.02 release plus the bonus of the bones feature. This release is the milestone to continue working with the bones feature. It needs:
- Release of regular snapshot binaries of the development branch. (owner: genete)
- Write down the tasks to do and the basic current usage of the bones feature. (owners: genete and nikitakit)
- Develop the tasks listed. (owners: genete and nikitakit)
- Contribute, comment, suggest, test and use the features of the bones. (owner: you the user) Feed back is very important.
If any of the current listed owners disagree with the proposal please let me know. Also any offer for owner of any task is very welcome.
There we go!
-G
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I can ping the others too if we have a list.
