-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As my first task an Xubuntu developer, I've worked to package Xfce 4.6-beta (4.5.80) for intrepid, and I'm glad to announce tonight that I feel that it reached the point where its worth announcing an open beta test for Xfce 4.6-beta, both to find Xubuntu bugs, and any Xfce release issues. As there has been a fairly massive rewrite of some major sections of Xfce, it is now a good shakedown cruse to find any issues with this release, and work towards filing the bugs upstream. In addition, we've used this opportunity to port some of the Xubuntu specifc patches such as the unified logout screen.
It should be stressed that these packages are still extremely experimental, and are not recommended for day-to-day use yet, and these packages have not been extensively reviewed or tested by the Xubuntu team. In addition, to stress the experimental and to discourage usage by non-developers, we have only released binaries for intrepid. As more people use and review these packages, issues will be resolved, and make the actual Xfce 4.6 release that much easier. In addition, not all the Xubuntu specific changes have been made yet, such as modifications to the help menu item. If you are running Intrepid, you can install Xfce 4.6-beta by adding the following line to your sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xubuntu-dev/ubuntu intrepid main As this is the xubuntu-dev PPA, any changes must be uploaded by either myself, Cody, or Lionel. I'm willing to sponsor any fixes, and in addition mentor people on outstanding issues (being tracked here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Intrepid/Xfce4.6). For those new to Xubuntu development, this is an excellent way to get involved. As an aside, if there is great demand for it, I am willing to backport the 4.6-beta to Hardy once as a team we're convinced there are no remaining issues with the beta testing. As always, happy hacking. Michael Casadevall Xubuntu Developer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iEYEARECAAYFAki04cwACgkQpblTBJ2i2pvlZACgmRQp5mUS4gQaUSszW+NT/qB2 IzoAn15SzT7+43LM2ii/jdnvOlE2wNmv =682z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
