Official 1.18rc1 announcement?

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Martin Pool<mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/19 John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>:
>> 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.

Can I suggest need a wiki page (or some thing easier to setup), per
release, where we have a check list of binarys that need to be built,
and once each one is built, it gets checked, and then it is easy to
see that they are all built, so the release announcement can be sent.