Release announcement for v0.12 BETA 1!
Posted in Release on March 16th, 2009 by Adam Plumb – 9 CommentsHi all,
It has been a longer wait than anticipated, but the first beta is finally here! We have several goals in mind for this beta and future betas:
- Produce installable tarball packages of NautilusSvn
- Produce distribution-specific packages (deb and rpm packages)
- Maintain a stable/unchanging set of strings for translation purposes
- Get NautilusSvn in a state where it can be used by the general public every day
The wait has mostly been related to some last minute issues with the installable tarballs and packages. Indeed, Bruce and I are still learning the release engineering trade, so you can probably expect us to fumble some more in the near future ;) We’ve also been tinkering with the status monitor, amongst other things, trying to make them simpler and more reliable.
Whereas the ALPHA was simply a statement that we wanted people to start actively testing the NautilusSvn v0.12 branch, this beta is our first honest-to-goodness release. We plan on releasing a few betas, until we are sure we’ve ironed out the kinks in the release process and in the program.
RELEASE SCHEDULE
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HOW TO INSTALL
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This is the first release where we want you to test out installing from either the tarball archive or the .deb package. We haven’t been able to generate an RPM just yet. That will hopefully come in beta2.
Go here for installation instructions: http://code.google.com/p/nautilussvn/wiki/Installation
CHANGES SINCE ALPHA
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You can see a rough list of changes since the ALPHA here: http://code.google.com/p/nautilussvn/issues/list?can=1&q=label%3A0.12-alpha&colspec=Stars+ID+Type+Status+Priority+Milestone+Owner+Summary&x=stars&y=status&cells=tiles. Some of the major changes are:
- Relative paths work better now in dialogs
- Merging is working (I think)
- Fixed mutliple-row selection in log and properties windows
- Replaced many dialog labels with text entries so URLs are easy to change (rather than being read-only)
- Many bug-fixes
KNOWN ISSUES
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WHAT YOU CAN DO
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- Install the beta and report any issues you have.
- We’re still looking for translations. Go to http://code.google.com/p/nautilussvn/wiki/Translating for instructions
- We’re still looking for more distro-specific instructions on how to install dependencies.
- Figure out a fix the context-menu misordering bug above.
Thanks for everyone’s help and we hope people enjoy the beta release.
The NautilusSvn Team
