Hello to all.

As planned, version 0.11.2 has been released yesterday. Some notes:

As the team spans some radically different time zones, for the next
time we should specify not only a release date, but also a time, in
UTC, for the people involved in the release to gather in the IRC
channel.

Separating the release in a branch creates a problem with
translations, as Launchpad's web interface maintains different
translations for different branches. Translators usually work on the
trunk page, but the announcement of a release candidate directed them
towards the 0.11 series page:
https://translations.launchpad.net/stellarium/trunk/+translations
https://translations.launchpad.net/stellarium/0.11/+translations
We need better (and consistent) communication with the translators.
Also, after the multiple splits and merges, I don't have the slightest
idea if the current translations, in the web interface or the code
itself, are up-to-date.

Speaking of communication with the translators, what happened to the
translator team at Launchpad?
https://launchpad.net/~stellarium-translation
The release candidate was announced on that team's mailing list, but
it's not tied in any way to Stellarium's translations in Launchpad. As
far as I can remember, it was a part of the effort of migrating to
Launchpad which was abandoned after it turned out that Launchpad's
mailing list don't support "reply-to address munging". Meanwhile, I've
been announcing my test builds on the Translators forum at
SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/forums/forum/565801

The release checklist helps, but it's not enough detailed for some
tasks, as it assumes knowledge.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0At02hwiDDfqgdG9qSS16ZkExbjI0UVBGVi12VENQNnc

Adding the change log to the release announcement proved a bit problematic:
- it was too long, perhaps we should just post a link (or keep a
separate changelog page when/if the website is re-designed).
- the change log was sourced from the ChangeLog file, which has line
breaks to align to the 80-character width and this broke the
list-to-html script.
- the list-to-html script itself has a bug: when the source text ends
in a list item, it doesn't close the list element, causing the rest of
the column to be indented.

The situation with the website is a mess: currently, there is a
Launchpad project of developing it, complete with a Bazaar repo, but
the code in the repo does not match the current contents of the
web-server. The current website uses separate index.php for
localization, while the Bazaar version uses gettext translation.

Regards,
Bogdan Marinov

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