[Alexandria-list] 0.6.3 release soon...

[L.C. Karssen]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 14:15 +0000, Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
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> "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 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?
I agree with Cathal, I'm not sure whether the comparison actually does
us any good. As for the description, maybe the Description field from
the Debian control file will do?

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> 
> * 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.
Don't forget to update it in the documentation too. Or do you want to
update the docs with the new features and screenshots first?

> * 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? 
Ubuntu Gutsy (the present version) and Hardy (the upcoming release) have
1.9.0, so, considering we're hoping for inclusion in Hardy I suggest
using that version.

> 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...)
I did a quick check using find . -iname "*.rb" | xargs head and found
the following files that did not mention the GPL in the first few lines:
./lib/alexandria/ui/listview.rb
./lib/alexandria/ui/dndable.rb
./lib/alexandria/ui/iconview.rb
./lib/alexandria/ui/ui_manager.rb
./lib/alexandria/ui/callbacks.rb
./lib/alexandria/ui/init.rb
./lib/alexandria/console.rb
./lib/alexandria/about.rb
./spec/alexandria/ui/listview.rb
./spec/alexandria/ui/iconview.rb
./spec/alexandria/ui/sidepane.rb
./spec/alexandria/ui/ui_manager.rb
./tests/test_application.rb
./tests/test.rb
./tests/test_providers.rb
./tests/test_isbn.rb


Lennart.


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