On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:07:24AM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 02:30 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
How do you feel we're doing? Do you feel Inkscape is solid enough that we could call it good on the bug hunt and proceed with the next stage of the release (perhaps with a select list of must-fix blocker bugs)?
Inkscape is good enough atm for a pre 1.0 release. If we get blockers, those can be focused on.
So we're looking at an about screen contest and lots of tarballs and package testing before we move onto freeze? I'm hoping all the work on 48.5 will help with the packages :-D
I'm feeling fairly good about the tarball situation. I need to do a pre2 tarball; each time I've sat down to doing it I've instead gotten distracted into working on packaging scripting stuff, fixing warnings, etc. I'll try to get pre2 out this week though.
There are still some warnings from make distcheck, but they're mostly in 3rd party libs like libcroco and 2geom. It'd be wonderful to get those addressed so we have a clean build, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over them.
If we have a schedule (date wise) for hard freeze, I can make sure the website work is ready to host the installers and tarballs now we have the extra space for the website. Let me know how hard to focus on it.
The problem is we'll presumably have a list of release-blocker bugs, but since we're all volunteers working on them, we won't be able to predict how long it'll take to get those fixed. Indeed, sometimes they've held us up a long time... but we've been able to do a regression bug hunt, and now are through one and a half "regular" bug hunts, so maybe our list will be much more tractable now.
So far from the people I've heard from publically and privately, we're split 50/50 whether to keep going with bug fixing vs. moving ahead to next step of the release, but I haven't heard from that many people. I think we should give it another couple weeks; we're doing great right now at getting bugs closed, and Liam in particular has a strong momentum.
Meanwhile, I'll get pre2 done and maybe we can get the about screen contest under way, and then by the end of the month we can take another look at where we are.
Bryce