Hi, On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:11 PM, scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:28 PM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I suppose the time for R1/Alpha4 has finally come. First thing we need >>> to do is to assign a release coordinator to facilitate the process. I >>> nominate Ryan Leavengood since he seems to be getting back into Haiku >>> development again recently. >> >> I'm fine with that if no one else is interested in the job. >> >> I think Scott's schedule sounds fine, depending on what we want to do >> with GSoC projects. I would be inclined to say we do the release as >> soon as we can and then GSoC integration can happen after the release. >> > > I've updated the StatusAndCoordination wiki page with this tentative schedule. > https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/R1/Alpha4/StatusAndCoordination > > I assume the branch and ABI change would happen on or around the 19th > and then we will start on the rebuilding of the OptionalPackages. I > just sent an email to the haiku-i18n list to give a heads up to the > translators that Alpha4 is coming soon. Please have any code changes > that will affect translatable text in place by the 18th, the sooner > the better of course. Any reason why we are not branching sooner? The remaining alpha 4 tickets don't seem to involve any code that touches translatable parts. That way translators can get started on a fixed target now. N>