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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Miguel de Icaza <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > Some of you have been asking about the upcoming release of Mono 2.12. > > We hit a little bit of a bump in the road with the layoff of the Mono > team, but we have now re-constituted the team at Xamarin and we are getting > back to speed. Our first priority at Xamarin is to ensure that our amazing > team of hackers remains employed, so we are focused on creating amazing > products for the mobile space. Of course, our products are entirely based > on Mono, and as you can see from the commits to the various Mono modules, a > lot of our energy goes into improving Mono. > > To get the 2.12 release to your hands, here’s what we still need to do: > > (a) We need to be able to build packages > (b) We need to be able to host the software > (c) We need to adopt the branching and release procedures. > > During the transition to Xamarin, we lost our build engineer. But luckily > at Xamarin we’ve hired Alex Corrado, a very talented developer who’s created > a new build system for Mono. The good news is that we are making progress > and we are now able to build Linux and MacOS packages. Next, Alex is > working on Windows builds. We are not there yet, but we will be there in > the next couple of weeks. > > Once we have packages, we will setup a new website for the Mono project > where we can host the software and the other project resources, like a wiki, > forums, etc. So we are working on a separate domain to host both a Mono web > site and the software, and that should be up in the next week or two. > > Once we have something ready, we will share the information with the rest > of the world and give access to the new Wiki to the various maintainers to > help us keep the content up to date. > > Thank you for your patience and your love for Mono! > > Miguel > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
