Re: Plans for Xfce 4.8

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:22:57 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Xfce 4.8 is supposed to be released on 2010-04-12. 
>  
>  Currently the Xfce SIG is planing to ship it in F13, although this is
>  ambitious. The Xfce milestones are very close to the F13 schedule and
>  might be delayed. We only have 8 days to from the release of pre1 till
>  Feature freeze. If there is nothing to test at feature freeze, the
>  feature may be dropped from F13. 
Yep. We can but try and see what we can do. ;) 

>  The current plan is: 
>        * F13 Alpha will come with Xfce 4.8pre1 (15 days from release to
>          Alpha freeze) 
>        * F13 Beta will come with Xfce 4.8pre2 (22 days from release to
>          Beta freeze) 
>        * F13 RC will come with Xfce 4.8final (17 days from release to
>  RC compose)
>  
>  Status;
>        * Reviews for the 3 new packages garcon, tumbler and libxfceui
>  are in progress 
I'll try and get to 2 of those today. :) 

>        * Xfce components that already have a 4.7/4.8 release (not yet
>  in rawhide)
>                * exo 0.5.1
>                * libxfce4util 4.7.1
>                * thunar-1.1
>                * xfconf 4.7.0
>                * xfce4-settings 4.7.0 
Yep. 

as soon as we have the 3 new ones available, I will setup a local repo
and try and do updates here. Then we can build and test before we
commit to devel. 

kevin