getting ready for Beta 2

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:44:15PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 15 September 2015 at 07:17, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> > We have a few open issues that have been reported here and that need more
> > investigation, but at the same time I'd like to give everyone a heads-up
> > towards Beta 2. I see that some translations are coming along, others
> > definitely need some TLC.
> >
> > Can the people working on translations let me know when they think they'll
> > have time to work on Subsurface? Just to give me an idea?
> >
> 
> looking at the strings, i probably need something like 2-3 hours to do
> my translation.
> this weekend seems fine, but i would prefer to do it in the phase
> where no string patches are accepted; so somewhere before the final
> release.
> 
> if you signal "Strings are now locked." it would mean for me "Now is
> the *best* time.". :)

I don't think we are quite there, yet.

So far the beta cycle hasn't surfaced as many issues as I expected. So my
plan is to do a Beta 2. Leave it out there for a week or two, fix the bugs
we learn about and the do a release candidate (and string freeze) by the
end of the month.

/D