Re: [Devil-linux-develop] 1.0 release date! Duh! :-)

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Howdy !

Bruce Smith wrote:

>The perfect release date for DEVIL Linux 1.0 is Oct 31, or Halloween!
>Or the evening of Oct 30th (Devil's night)!  :-)
>
I think Halloween  is more commonly known then Devil's night (though I 
would prefer it).

>Why didn't anyone thing of that before ...   Duh!  :-)
>
Yeah why not ?

>It's a little less than two weeks, and will give us a chance to do some
>publicity.  I think news sites will be more apt to pick up our press
>release(s) if we make a big deal about it happening on Halloween.
>
>Heiko, approve the date and I'll write up something.  Other people
>should feel free to write articles too.
>
Approved ! Release date will be October 31 !
Yes please write something up, your english is much better then mine.

Anybody else wants to write something ?
The only request we ( I ) have is, that it is ready for review by Bruce 
and myself on October 29th.

>I know a fellow LUG member who works at OSDN (slashdot, newsforge,
>sourceforge, linux.com, freshmeat, etc.) who told me before that he'd
>help me get something posted.  (assuming I can write something decent)
>
Cool ! Pay him a beer. ;-)

>Heiko, you should compile 1.0-final a few days in advance so it's ready
>to go, just don't post it for download until 10/31.  What ya think?
>  
>
Fully agreed.
It's better to do it a few days earlier, since I had some problems with 
the build machine last time.

cya
  Heiko