Jacob Berkman: GNOME 1.4 Update

[ Thanks to jacob
berkman for this announcement: ]

This is the first installment of a weekly update on the progress
of the GNOME 1.4 “not yet named” release. Work on this release is
progressing rapidly, with the first beta release currently
scheduled for this Saturday (February 17). For package
maintainers:

• Maintainers of packages that will be included in this beta
  *must* provide tarballs by the end of Thursday. Please mail
  gnome-1.4-release-team@gnome.org with information on where to find
  the tarball.
• Anybody who is packaging GNOME packages with documentation in
  it should install scrollkeeper 0.0.5 or later: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11543
• Dan will write up instructions on using ScrollKeeper soon. Keep
  an eye on the news on the GDP web page for an announcement of these
  instructions: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/
• GNOME 1.4 will use Nautilus’ gnome-db2html2 converter to
  display SGML documents. Please make sure that the SGML documents
  are being installed in addition to the HTML. Also make sure that
  the SGML is compliant with the 1.4 guidelines: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/changes/
• Also, don’t forget to mail gnome-i18n@gnome.org a couple of
  days (which is right now, actually) before making your final
  tarball for the beta.

For i18n and doc people:

• A list of the branches for the different modules being released
  is available in the releng module of GNOME cvs, or from lxr:
  http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/releng/gnome-1.4-branches
• Don’t worry if everything isn’t done by the first beta 🙂

For testers:

• The GNOME 1.4 beta process will include a list of tests for
  many of the applications. This will be made available later this
  week, and more information about this will be made at that
  time.

That’s all for now; more information about the release will be
available later this week. Thanks,
The GNOME 1.4 Release Team gnome-1.4-release-team@gnome.org