Yes, Xfce 4.8 is delayed!
I've seen a lot of people on IRC lately asking why 4.8 was not released on the 12th of June as scheduled. Well, the schedule could not be respected and we currently have no scheduled release date. There is still a lot of work to do and we lost several key contributors and we obviously did not gain new ones...
So if you want to see Xfce 4.8 out, come and help us! We need help to implement the 4.8 features (have a look at the bottom of schedule page, there are links to the goals of each module) and to fix bugs.
A good way to get started is to choose some bugs on the Xfce bugzilla and to submit patches, come and bug us on #xfce to get your patches reviewed (it may take a while but that's definitely useful!). We need a lot more contributors if we want to get things moving forward!
In a post that will follow shortly, I will discuss a merrier topic: the new awesome work of the mighty mr_pouit (his only vice being that he maintains Xubuntu :D) on the display settings dialog (the dialog to set the screen resolution, frequency...). Stay tuned! (Yes, this means we are still active :D)
Comments
Damn, I've read "Yes, Xfce 4.8 is released!" the first time. :/ I would totally help, but I completely don't know GTK and Xfce API.
I can't imagine the depreciation of HAL and the crawl towards GTK 3.0 is making your jobs any easier, either.
Like comment #1, I only have the most rudimentary of C skills, so I wouldn't be of much help.
damn, i would help but im only a user and not a programmer:/
If you want help, you need to make some documentation on what to do because for someone from outside of xfce's development, it's not going to be easy at all to start from scratch.
Thank you all for your support!
Roberto: Yeah, definitely. I'm planning to work on something like that during the summer.
That so functional/usable it is this version?
Can be parallel installed xfce 4.8 and maintain 4.6??
Darn
Keep on coding, I'm looking forward to the release of 4.8