27 Sep
2005
27 Sep
'05
8:18 a.m.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:17:36PM +1000, Peter Moulder wrote:
Existing show-stoppers will take sufficient amount of time, and will involve sufficiently non-trivial bug fixes, that it is more productive to lift the hard freeze for the moment. However, the feature freeze remains.
Currently, our best plan for making a release soon involves backing out (or at least disabling) the following changes:
- SPDesktop C++ification. This transformation was too rushed; has introduced at least two show-stoppers. Clean-up changes are good, but should be done cautiously, e.g. by breaking into small changes that can each be verified with reasonable confidence. The SPDesktop change has demonstrated itself not to be safe, so we'll back it out.
What are the two show stoppers?
- Connectors. Michael is now back from overseas and can work on this, but its current state (with crashes) isn't releasable.
Actually, having played with this a lot last weekend, I suspect once one or two crashes are fixed, most of the remaining issues are mostly cosmetic. I'd rather see efforts focused on solving that crash rather than into backing this out.
Bryce