Official 1.18rc1 announcement?

[Martin Pool]

2009/8/19 John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>:
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> I'm not sure if the plan was followed exactly, but I thought we were
> expecting to have a "1.18rc1 available" public announcement once the
> installers for Windows and Mac where built. I realize our glorious RM
> was away in Taiwan during that time, so it might have just been forgotten.

It was.

> Was that the plan? I'm mostly curious because it seems we will be
> releasing 1.18-final *today*, and we never really had the 'general
> availability' announcement for 1.18rc1.

That's true.  It's too manual.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>