[rkward-devel] First preview of rkward 0.4.8 / Release Schedule / Translations

[Stefan Rödiger]

Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2007 22:36:18 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> Hi all,
>
> development has been somewhat slower during the past few months, but all
> the same, in that time a fairly large amount of changes has accumulated. So
> time has come to create a new release. As RKWard 0.4.7a is not compatible
> with the upcoming version of R, we will try to release close to R 2.6.0,
> which is scheduled for October, 3.

fine to me

>
> As a first step, there is the usual preview release, available at
> http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward-0.4.8pre1.tar.gz . And as usual,
> I'd like to ask you to do as much testing, as you can find the time to. In
> particular, you may want to focus on the plugins listed on this page:
> 	 . Further visible changes include a new file selector tool window
> (right below the workspace browser on the left), and a reworked object
> viewer (what you get, when you right-click on an object an select "View").
> For a full list of changes so far, have a look at the ChangeLog provided in
> the preview release.
>

fine. I checked dot chart. No objections here (will note it later in the wiki)

Timeseries KPSS and Box test are basically ready. Need testing. (will note it 
later in the wiki)


> --- Release Schedule ---
>
> The further timeline for the 0.4.8 release will look roughly like this:
> - On or around Wednesday, September 26: Second preview release
> - Monday October 1: Deadline for translations
> - On or around Wednesday, October 3: Final release
> Both the second preview, and the final release will be announced on both
> mailing lists (devel and users), when they happen.
>
> --- Translations ---
>
> As indicated above, the deadline for translations is the 1st of October.
> Few - if any - changes in translatable strings are expected until the
> release, so now is a good time to start updating your translation. If you
> are fairly sure you will have enough free time to update your translation
> after the second preview release, i.e. at the end of this month, you may
> consider delaying your work until then, to make sure you don't miss out on
> any last minute string changes.
> Reminder: The current .pot and .po files are contained in the
> subdirectory "po" of the preview release.
>

German translation is updated

> --- Developers ---
>
> I will create a new branch in SVN, in a few minutes, so you can commit
> changes as usual, without worrying too much about interfering with the
> release. Please start your commit comments with either "FOR 0.4.8" or "NOT
> FOR 0.4.8", to make it easier for me to merge the relevant changes into the
> release branch. Please focus mostly on fixing bugs, enhancing
> documentation, or doing trivial work on existing plugins (those are the
> ones to be marked as "for 0.4.8"), rather than creating new plugins or
> doing complex changes (which will not go into the 0.4.8 release).
>

okay	.

> Regards
> Thomas

Regards

Stefan