[etoys-dev] Release notes

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 31.08.2009, at 17:03, Timothy Falconer wrote:

> FYI, you can click "release notes" next to Etoys 4.0 to get an up-to- 
> date list since we switched to JIRA.

This does not reflect actual work done.

> Also, another Big Feature is publishing to the squeakland showcase.   
> Yeah, I know it's minor from a code standpoint, but we want to send  
> the message that we want to build community, etc.

I was only counting the changes that have been done already. If we  
decide to add DrGeo that would be another biggie (and we should decide  
quickly, assuming we want to do the release on the same date as last  
year).

- Bert -

> On Aug 31, 2009, at 5:55 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>> We/someone should start working on release notes. The previous ones  
>> (for 3.0) are here:
>>
>> http://squeakland.org/download/releaseNotes.jsp
>>
>> Since these are mostly aimed at users, maybe the edu team should  
>> write the bulk of it?
>>
>> I think the Big New Thing in 4.0 that needs to be communicated very  
>> clearly is both the finishing of the re-licensing, and the switch  
>> to a community development process lead by the Squeakland  
>> foundation. On the technical side we settled on the 1200x900  
>> virtual resolution, but other than that it's almost just bug fixes.
>>
>> To aid writing the notes I made a change log going back to the  
>> previous Squeakland release (3.0):
>>
>> http://svn.squeakland.org/installers/NEWS
>>
>> I compiled this mostly from my OLPC release log.
>>
>> We have various logs now with varying degrees of detail:
>>
>> * for users (matches what I send as release announcements)
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/public_rpms/joyride/ChangeLog
>>
>> * for developers (edited to one-line summaries, added support file  
>> changes too)
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/NEWS
>> (this is actually generated from http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys.spec 
>>  and goes back to 2006)
>>
>> * raw changeset comments (does not include changes outside image)
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog.3.2
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog.3.1
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog.3.0
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog.2.3
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog.2.2
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog.2.1
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog.2.0
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/ChangeLog.1.0
>>
>> We should start consolidating all of our various developer sites  
>> after the release.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
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