Hello, I'm sure that you all have heard of the new GNOME 2.12 release scheduled for September 7th.
The GNOME herd has been working furiously these past few weeks to bring the latest Release Candidate 1 to you for testing! Heres a link to one person's review, if you'd like to see what's new: http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-12/ If you would like to help us find bugs in this release, please unmask all packages located in the GNOME 2.12 section of package.mask. Also, these need to be placed in package.keywords. I've posted package.unmask, package.keywords, and instructions to ease testing at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~allanonjl/gnome/2.12_rc/ The gnome-2.12_rc1.ebuild should hit the mirrors shortly. ( just committed ) We already have a tracker set up, it's: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103197 If you find a bug, please assign the bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then add 103197 as a blocker for your bug. ( Of course, after you search :) ) We also have a new tracking page that has helped us with this release ( and the official release soon ): http://dev.gentoo.org/~allanonjl/gnome/gnome_status.html Some changes that may be useful to note: * mozilla is no longer a requirement for GNOME since epiphany can compile against firefox * local use flag 'firefox' added for totem * local use flag 'firefox' added for evolution-data-server Some last minute bugs that were just committed ( may be a little bit before they hit the mirrors ): * evolution-data-server must be compiled +ldap +kerberos in order for libexchange-storage module to be built for evolution-exchange * gnome-desktop dependency in gnome-panel bumped to the 2.11.x version Special thanks go to ka0ttic for keeping the c++ bindings up to date and, of course, everyone in the GNOME herd for the hard work so far. We are aiming to move the official GNOME 2.12 release out of package.mask ( and into unstable ) around September 14th. Thanks, and happy bug hunting! John N. Laliberte ( AllanonJL ) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
