Hey John,
Thanks for responding! (shame, shame everyone else ;) ) No more playing friendly... packaging limitations won't matter. If we have a tarball, I don't care what we have packaged at announcement time. We'll do it like other projects and say "hey, it'll be available when/if someone packages it".
Pre-holiday was my goal... I'd like to see first or second week in Dec. A bonus to this is people can install fancy new stuff when their families get together. ;)
I think an IRC meeting is a great idea... Hangout has limitations for number of participants as well as is a less "privacy-oriented" way to participate. We still have people who participate that don't want to do so outright publicly.
Cheers, Josh
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:11 AM, John Cliff <john.cliff@...400...> wrote:
One thing we really need to sort out is our approach to packaging, we still dont have a mac package for the last release... Having a hard timescale of when we announce post finalizing might be a good idea so we dont end up in limbo again. (even if it comes with an apology for certain platforms that the package is still being worked on) Trying to avoid Xmas would be good too, can we aim for before the end of Nov instead of before the end of the year?
Might be a good idea to have another irc meeting to discuss this issue (or a G+ hangout?)
Cheers
John
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
Hey All,
It seems like it would be jumping the gun to put forth a proposed release plan without getting input from everyone on what should and should not be pursued during this cycle. After some feedback it should be a bit easier to put forth a somewhat realistic timeframe. Again, the goal is still to have a release before the end of the year. (Note: 0.48.4 is going to be cut hopefully in the next week or so)
First, I want to address, what major features and issues are still left that people want include and will be able to wrap up in the near future?
We still have some outstanding bugs with the new renderer which should really be addressed when possible. I know I will be going through the tracker soon to look for our blockers and must-fixes... others are welcome to do this as well.
Our "start" time is still pretty unfriendly... valgrind just screams that it's fontconfig taking up the biggest chunk of this. I have no clue though if anyone is interested in taking this on.
Also, it's time we get the skeletal pieces in place is the release notes. If you don't have time to write the full text, please write a placeholder Todo. Anyone is welcome to do this, if you are the author of a new feature or notable change or bugfix, traditionally you are the one to write this (as you're usually the most familiar with the feature). I don't believe we should include compatibility to compile against GTK3 as it will be viewed as a supported feature.
So, where do we stand. I would really like to get a proposed release plan out in the next week if possible.
Any suggestions for a theme for this release's About screen contest?
Cheers, Josh
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