[Alexandria-list] 0.6.3 release soon...

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:16:25 -0500
"Joseph Method" <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, this is the first draft of a release announcement. I'm thinking
> about the gnome-announce list.
> 
> http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/alexandria/NEWS
> 
> Edit it for style, facticity, etc. It especially needs the list of
> updated translations.

* I added Galician & Chinese (Traditional) to the NEWS file. (I left out
my partial Irish translation since it's only 55% done.)
* I wonder... the release note compares Alexandria to Tellico and
Delicious Library. Is this necessary? They're both more fully-featured
than Alexandria (they both support music & movies too), so the
comparison is sort of unfavourable for us. And people who don't know
those programs won't be any the wiser. Perhaps a short description of
the core utility of the program would be more useful?


* Anyway, I also did a couple of touch-ups here and there, including in
the README and Rakefile to make sure the version number is consistent at
0.6.3.


* I added libhpricot-ruby to the debian Recommends - it's needed for
Amazon ECS. 
* Also, since I noticed a problem with libgettext-ruby 1.1.0
(on gNewSense) - I set a minimum version of 1.10.0, is that a widely
available version? 
* One more thing, I don't *think* libyaml-ruby1.8 needs
to be included explicitly - ruby1.8 requires libruby1.8 which provides
libyaml-ruby1.8. No harm though.


Before releasing, we should check that there's a copyright & GPL
license notice on every ruby file, especially those originally written
by Laurent Sansonetti et al. Some of the copyright notices were mislaid
during refactoring, when files were split up or code was moved about.
(I know, I'm a real nerd about these things...)

   -   C.
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