[opensuse-marketing] Milestone 4 Announcement Review

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Andreas Jaeger

24 Mar 2010 24 Mar '10

16:40

I'd like to see Milestone 4 announced tomorrow and have drafted the following announcement. Please review it and send me suggestions on improving the text. If you want to rewrite it completely, I'm fine as well ;) I'd like to see from packagers a few more details on the major packaging changes, enhancements are welcome. Thanks, Andreas [Graphic: Geeko at work from MIlestone3] The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here's what you may find interesting in the new release: * OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 * NetworkManager was updated to version 0.8 * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2 * The conntrack - network filtering system has been added * The mono stack has been updated to version 2.6.3 * Python was updated to version 2.6.5 RC 2 * samba was updated to version 3.5.1 * The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone Gnome/GTK desktop users: * GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92) KDE desktop users: * KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1. * Amarok is now at version 2.3. * k3b is updated to version 1.91. Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs. To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development. The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the 25th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today! What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today! -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Александр Мелентьев

24 Mar 24 Mar

17:05

2010/3/24 Andreas Jaeger :

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* GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92) Maybe, you meant 2.29.92 =) As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. Usually, those known bugs are listed after this paragraph, but there's no single bug present. The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the 25th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today! Actually, March 25th is the day for THIS milestone, not for the next one ;) -- Regards, Minton. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Andreas Jaeger

19:06

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 18:05:25 Александр Мелентьев wrote:

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2010/3/24 Andreas Jaeger :

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* GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92)

Maybe, you meant 2.29.92 =)

Maybe ;)

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As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing.

Usually, those known bugs are listed after this paragraph, but there's no single bug present.

Yeah, that was my problem.

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The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the 25th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today!

Actually, March 25th is the day for THIS milestone, not for the next one ;)

Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Henne Vogelsang

17:12

Hi On 03/24/2010 05:40 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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* $PACKAGE has been updated to $VERSION

What is $PACKAGE and what improvements brings this update for whom? I suggest you read Zonkers blogging 101 :-) http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2010/02/16/blogging-101-take-a-tip-from-news... Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

James Mason

17:32

I'm taking a stab at this as well, should have a draft ready tonight... I'm focusing on the recent factory talk about Kernel 2.26.34 RC2, inclusion of VirtualBox Guest tools in the Live CDs, and whatever other feature requests I can find that closed. Apologies again for the late notice on M3, but I needed to find a workflow that worked for me. Using the openFATE search for recently closed features, and bugzilla for recently closed bugs, helped much in finding changes that were interesting. Also, I'm rather fond of the idea of making the notes more interesting for the reader - I tried to do that in the M3 notes by asking *who* a particular feature/bugfix would benefit, and *why*. - James Mason 'bear454' On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:

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Hi

On 03/24/2010 05:40 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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* $PACKAGE has been updated to $VERSION

What is $PACKAGE and what improvements brings this update for whom? I suggest you read Zonkers blogging 101 :-)

http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2010/02/16/blogging-101-take-a-tip-from-news...

Henne

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Chuck Payne

17:40

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:32 PM, James Mason wrote:

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I'm taking a stab at this as well, should have a draft ready tonight...

I'm focusing on the recent factory talk about Kernel 2.26.34 RC2, inclusion of VirtualBox Guest tools in the Live CDs, and whatever other feature requests I can find that closed. Apologies again for the late notice on M3, but I needed to find a workflow that worked for me. Using the openFATE search for recently closed features, and bugzilla for recently closed bugs, helped much in finding changes that were interesting. Also, I'm rather fond of the idea of making the notes more interesting for the reader - I tried to do that in the M3 notes by asking *who* a particular feature/bugfix would benefit, and *why*.

- James Mason 'bear454'

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:

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Hi

On 03/24/2010 05:40 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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* $PACKAGE has been updated to $VERSION

What is $PACKAGE and what improvements brings this update for whom? I suggest you read Zonkers blogging 101 :-)

http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2010/02/16/blogging-101-take-a-tip-from-news...

Henne

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Andreas Jaeger

19:09

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 18:32:44 James Mason wrote:

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I'm taking a stab at this as well, should have a draft ready tonight...

Ok, thanks a lot!

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I'm focusing on the recent factory talk about Kernel 2.26.34 RC2,

2.26.34 RC2 is not yet included.

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inclusion of VirtualBox Guest tools in the Live CDs, and whatever other feature requests I can find that closed. Apologies again for the late notice on M3, but I needed to find a workflow that worked for me. Using the openFATE search for recently closed features, and bugzilla for recently closed bugs, helped much in finding changes that were interesting. Also, I'm rather fond of the idea of making the notes more interesting for the reader - I tried to do that in the M3 notes by asking *who* a particular feature/bugfix would benefit, and *why*.

Yes, this would be really great! Henne's critique is valid, I hoped to have some of you step up and tell me those details, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Andreas Jaeger

25 Mar 25 Mar

11:35

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 18:32:44 James Mason wrote:

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I'm taking a stab at this as well, should have a draft ready tonight...

What timezone are you in? ;) Please tell me when you plan to be ready. I really like to see this go out tonight my time, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

James Mason

14:12

On Mar 25, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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On Wednesday 24 March 2010 18:32:44 James Mason wrote:

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I'm taking a stab at this as well, should have a draft ready tonight...

What timezone are you in? ;) Please tell me when you plan to be ready. I really like to see this go out tonight my time,

Andreas

I'm PST (PDT ? who knows). Anyway, doesn't matter: parental duties impinged my writing time. Release your notes; I'll be more helpful on M5. - James mason, 'bear454'

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-- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@ {novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Andreas Jaeger

14:18

On Thursday 25 March 2010 15:12:48 James Mason wrote:

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On Mar 25, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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On Wednesday 24 March 2010 18:32:44 James Mason wrote:

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I'm taking a stab at this as well, should have a draft ready tonight...

What timezone are you in? ;) Please tell me when you plan to be ready. I really like to see this go out tonight my time,

Andreas

I'm PST (PDT ? who knows). Anyway, doesn't matter: parental duties impinged my writing time. Release your notes; I'll be more helpful on M5.

Sorry, hope it's nothing serious. How can we coordinate better for M5? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Andrea Florio

24 Mar 24 Mar

18:33

New subject: [opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-factory] Milestone 4 Announcement Review

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think you should add something about lxde. The most important change is that we now finally switched to pcmanfm 0.9.x / libfm with thousands of improvments Andrea Il 24/03/2010 17:40, Andreas Jaeger ha scritto:

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I'd like to see Milestone 4 announced tomorrow and have drafted the following announcement. Please review it and send me suggestions on improving the text. If you want to rewrite it completely, I'm fine as well ;)

I'd like to see from packagers a few more details on the major packaging changes, enhancements are welcome.

Thanks, Andreas

[Graphic: Geeko at work from MIlestone3]

The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon.

Here's what you may find interesting in the new release:

* OpenOffice.Org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 * NetworkManager was updated to version 0.8 * cups has been updated to version 1.4.2 * The conntrack - network filtering system has been added * The mono stack has been updated to version 2.6.3 * Python was updated to version 2.6.5 RC 2 * samba was updated to version 3.5.1 * The Moblin team has started with the integration of the Moblin UI into the distribution and plan to have everything ready for the next milestone

Gnome/GTK desktop users:

* GNOME has been updated to the GNOME 2.30 release candidate (2.39.92)

KDE desktop users:

* KDE has been updated to version 4.4.1. * Amarok is now at version 2.3. * k3b is updated to version 1.91.

Testing! Testing! Testing!

As this is a milestone release, 11.3 milestone 4 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing.

You can track the most annoying bugs on the wiki along with 11.3 development. If you want to make sure 11.3 final is free of annoying bugs, we’ll need your help finding, reporting, and fixing those hidden bugs.

To learn more about testing openSUSE, visit the Testing pages on the openSUSE wiki. To follow the testing and development process, we suggest that you subscribe to the openSUSE-Factory mailing list (Subscribe | Help | Archives) and join the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode to discuss openSUSE development.

The next openSUSE Milestone is scheduled to be released on Thursday, March the 25th, with additional new features and bug fixes. Get Milestone 4 Today!

What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today!

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Andreas Jaeger

18:57

New subject: [opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-factory] Milestone 4 Announcement Review

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 19:33:33 Andrea Florio wrote:

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I think you should add something about lxde. The most important change is that we now finally switched to pcmanfm 0.9.x / libfm with thousands of improvments

Give me a sentence or two and I'll add it ;) I could add but would take something else as well: lxde: Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.x/ libfm with thousands of improvements. Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Andrea Florio

19:52

New subject: [opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-factory] Milestone 4 Announcement Review

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think you can say something like: Lxde: * Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.3 and libfm 0.1.9 (even if both into beta state) Now lxde fully support trash, automount, gvfs, "menu-browsing" and much more. * lxsession: upgrade to 0.4.3 with d-bus support would that be ok? feel free to change/improve them Andrea Il 24/03/2010 19:57, Andreas Jaeger ha scritto:

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On Wednesday 24 March 2010 19:33:33 Andrea Florio wrote:

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I think you should add something about lxde. The most important change is that we now finally switched to pcmanfm 0.9.x / libfm with thousands of improvments

Give me a sentence or two and I'll add it ;)

I could add but would take something else as well: lxde: Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.x/ libfm with thousands of improvements.

Thanks, Andreas

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Andreas Jaeger

20:02

New subject: [opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-factory] Milestone 4 Announcement Review

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 20:52:47 Andrea Florio wrote:

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I think you can say something like:

Lxde: * Switch to pcmanfm 0.9.3 and libfm 0.1.9 (even if both into beta state) Now lxde fully support trash, automount, gvfs, "menu-browsing" and much more.

* lxsession: upgrade to 0.4.3 with d-bus support

would that be ok? feel free to change/improve them

I remove the "even if both into beta state" and added it, thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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