[pacman-dev] Status Update for release

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 8, 2008 9:15 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/1/8, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>
> > On Jan 6, 2008 9:18 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > On Jan 5, 2008 7:30 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Travis- I'll send you more details soon so we can get a corresponding
> > > > abs package release together.
> > >
> > > Just an FYI - I'll be releasing this ABS as the old 'cvsup' version -
> > > I haven't had time to really play with the rsync implementation yet,
> > > and since the cvsup version works at current, we'll just run with it
> > > so we can get the new pacman out the door.
> > >
> > > I've got the proto files in my local branch for ABS, and I'll be
> > > pushing them to projects.archlinux.org soon.  After that, it's ready
> > > for release in its current form.
> >
> > Final update of pacman-git tonight so it can be installed side-by-side
> > with testing/abs. PLEASE report anything, otherwise source tarball
> > release happens tomorrow.
> >
> > Slight updates to the webpage too: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/,
> > and notably to the translation-help file. I'll be looking for a
> > translation lieutenant/coordinator for the next release (described in
> > the document), so if anyone is interested, please send me an email.
> > I'd like this to be someone who knows enough about GIT that they will
> > be able to manage the inflow of a mix of patches and PO files, publish
> > a git repository somewhere (if need be, I can provide space), and
> > allow me to merge translations from their tree when necessary (just
> > before a release).
> >
>
> just a very small notice:
> since abs is not a part of Pacman anymore, this line can be removed from NEWS:
> - allow abs to not be included (FS#7319)

Good call. I'll change it to "ABS removed from pacman package" or something.

Any other NEWS updates while we are at it? Speak up today, please.

-Dan