> On Tuesday 11 of September 2012 17:17:58 Timothy Pearson wrote: >> Slavek, are we about ready to release? When you are done I am planning >> to >> do a mass copy of your packages into the main 3.5.13 release archive, as >> I >> see no reason to keep the original buggy 3.5.13 available to the general >> public. >> >> Do I have any volunteers to write a press release for this event? > > A few days ago I stated the following list of tasks: > > 1) approve and include updated scripts > => DONE - already included in v3.5.13-sru branch on 'tde' > > 2) prepare v3.5.13-sru branch on the meta-project 'tde' > I have done... I'm waiting for scripts, then I'll push it > => DONE - switching between branches is now simple: > git checkout _branch_ && > scripts/switch_all_submodules_to_head_and_clean > > 3) include patches to change path for documentation from kde/HTML to > tde/HTML > => DONE in GIT - now I include this patches into packages, build again > and > checking. During checking, for example, I move a manpages, which could be > in > conflict with KDE4 packages. Due to thorough checking it may seem that I > proceed slowly. > > 4) ready for create tarballs and release > => I would say that git tree is ready for testing with other > distributions. > > Once I have all the packages for Debian and Ubuntu updated and packagers > for > other distributions also will confirm "ready to release", release could be > published. :) Looks good! > I have set up an account on the wiki, so I can prepare a detailed > changelog > (for Etherpad is this article too long). Hovewer, report for the official > announcement I can not prepare - as you know, in English, I am very weak. Right, I am not asking you to do this. There are other members on this list who can read your master changelog and put a nice public relations face on it. ;-) Regarding the original topic of this thread, I ran across this today: http://jehurst.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/my-last-kde-rant I wonder how many other people just gave up after a while and don't know that TDE exists or is viable. Tim