Release announcements

I think the same message, although given that there are no previous release announcements on the blog, we could perhaps include a very short intro to release announcements explaining what it's all about, perhaps progress up to this point.

Same text is enough imho - but of course it can be longer if someone wants to be creative - the important thing IMHO is that it's posted at the same time as other communications.

If someone can give me some warning of when the release will be made, I'll be happy to post to DHQ and blog.

@flaburgan @goob @steffenvanbergerem @seantilleycommunit I wrote some thanks in the release announcement, going through commits and trying to figure out what each person did ;) Does the text sound good? Feel free to modify. Tagged you because you've commented here.
Anyone else who needs special mention?

@jonnehass @dennisschubert @florianstaudacher - https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5008 and https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5007 need merging - and I think then we're ready to go! I'm free to do some release stuff later in the evening today, say approx 6-8pm UTC.

Wouldn't we need some time to make sure these fixes don't have any unintended side-effects before releasing?

Thanks for that work tracking down contributors, @jaywink.
I've added links to people's profiles in Github.

I've also noticed that many links in the changelog are to the original issue reports rather than the pull requests, as I thought they are supposed to be. I'll push an updated changelog now.

@goob release coming now, if you want to follow it on IRC. :)

@jasonrobinson last changes are pulled in diaspora-fr, if you want to redo your tests on the bookmarklet there, just to check.

@goob well I think we've already had a code freeze for quite some time to find bugs. 5007 was to revert one such bug introduced in develop, 5008 to fix another regression. IMHO we are ready for release, unless no one has strong objections..

Planning to do that in an hour or two - so shout now if you want to! :)

@goob @flaburgan will one of you be around today later on IRC maybe? Would be nice to get the blog post posted around the same time that other communications is done. I've access to DHQ, but not the blog.

Yeah I'm available ;)

@jaywink if you post from DHQ I'll see it in my stream and post it to the blog then. Should be popping in every couple of hours so I'll pick it up then.