We're about 48 hours out from the launch of the new BitWise web site, and things seem to be pretty smooth overall. There were a few broken links found early on, but they were quickly fixed. I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop and find out the page X doesn't render correctly on browser Y, but maybe my coding skills really are that stellar. ;)
So the crisis du jour was learning that BitWise for Mac OS X has a small problem when running on the brand-spanking new Mac OS X 10.4, "Tiger." The toolbar icons don't have transparent backgrounds, but instead have pink backgrounds. While this is not as bad as, say, crashing every 5 seconds, it's rather hideous. I'm sweating it a bit because the release is scheduled for Thursday and I am at the mercy of the other wxWidgets developers who have Tiger already to fix it, but hopefully it will all work out.
In other news, I have been reminded why I find releases so tedious. There is so much to do for a full release. Update the translation files. Update the Installer (including new translations, if available). Update the versions in the program, readme files, OS-specific resource files and anywhere else needed. Test the Linux version on various distros. Get the final changelog in order. Do more bug testing. Prepare announcements for various web sites. Oh, and when there's a new Routing Server, many of the same things have to be done for it, too!
Of course, there are rewards too, but it's usually hard to see those until the day of or the few days after the release. Sounds like a good topic for next week. :)
Until they, here's to hoping for no pink Tigers...
I have good news, Stefan C. pulled through and fixed the pink background problem in Tiger. Yay. :)