Congratulations all.

And how does one get this again?  Someone told me how to FTP it but I can't 
find the
mail and neither hotmail nor the message list archives (afaik) have a search 
capability to
look for it. :(


>From: goran at krampe.se
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: [ANN] 3.9 Final release (was Re: [ANN] 3.9 gamma (7056) is ready)
>Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:28:29 +0200
>
>Hi!
>
>Noury Bouraqadi <bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We should call it the ESUG release, since it has been done here at
> > Prague :-)
> > BTW, Stéf was so tired yesterday that he forgot to mention that this
> > is the final 3.9.
> >
> > I'm making this announce though I wasn't involved in the integration
> > process. But, the final built and tests were done in the hotel room
> > I'm sharing with Stéf and Serge. Marcus, Adrian,
> > Thorsten, and Bernhard were there too. The room was a bit crowded :-)
> >
> > Thanks to all people who participate to 3.9.
> > Noury
>
>And let me be the first (?) to congratulate you all!
>
>It's been a rocky road but you pulled through and now we all have a nice
>fresh piece of image that we can jump onto. It is a psychological
>important step - a release. Even though it probably still has a bunch of
>problems/bugs or whatever - we now have a common baseline that we can
>grab and try to move into.
>
>Again, thanks for all your hard work - bring out the champagne and let's
>have fun! I will try to verify some of my packages in 3.9 ASAP.
>
>regards, Göran
>
>PS. For the next release, whatever its number - we should probably try
>to spread the workload in some way. I know - it is note easy, and we did
>try it for 3.9 with teams etc. But perhaps a bit of community
>coordination and prodding is all we need to finally get those stewarding
>teams rolling a bit more. But at the end of the day we probably still
>will need a dedicated release team - hard to avoid - but the next
>release could then perhaps be made smaller in scope.
>