The snapshot and the new text layout code.

[Pierre Stirnweiss]

I also agree. If it really is a matter of days rather than weeks. It really
would be a shame to miss one of the biggest and most noticeable change in
words. Not to mention missing the whole application, which would in my
opinion be a big problem PR wise.

Pierre

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2011/4/28 Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se>:
> > Today is officially the tagging for 2.4 or 3.0 snapshot 1.  And I hear
> people
> > expressing the opinion that the new text layout code should not be merged
> > before the snapshot. This worries me.
> >
> > We do the snapshots for two reasons:
> >
> > 1. To get feedback on what we have now.
> >
> > 2. To show some activity and let people know that the project is very
> active.
> >
> > I would say that the most important development that we have going right
> now
> > is the new text layout engine. It is crucially important for both Words
> and
> > Stage.  Casper says it is ready, there has been a full-time tester
> (Swathi)
> > testing it for over a week and she says that it is better than the old
> code.
> >
> > Yet, if we continue on the set track, the new layout code will not be
> part of
> > the snapshot.  In fact, Casper says that if this happens he doesn't want
> Words
> > to be part of the snapshot at all. This means that reason 1 will be
> completely
> > failed.
> >
> > So I suggest that we delay the tagging of the snapshot a few days and let
> > Casper merge the branch. It only touches two parts of the engine: kotext
> and
> > the text shape.  In addition to that, there are changes in Words and
> Stage.
> > Things may be a little bit unstable, but since Swathi says it is already
> > better than before, I think we can live with that.
> >
> > Most importantly, if we *don't* merge it, we will not have words in the
> > snapshot, which to me is failure, *or* we will have lots of feedback on
> things
> > that will be thrown away, maybe even in the time between the tagging and
> the
> > actual release day.
> >
> > So please, let's agree to merge the text layout code, and if that means
> > delaying the snapshot a couple of days, then it's a very cheap price to
> pay.
>
> Although I'm not involved in any of this, I must say I wholeheartedly
> agree. And saying "but there will be a new snapshot in just a month
> from which we'll get feedback" does not address the issue you bring up
> Inge; you'll be getting feedback on essentially dumped code. Also, a
> month is actually quite a long time at the speed with which things
> have been moving lately (yes, my units of measurement are mixed up
> here, but you get what I mean, and please don't bring up relativity ;)
>
> I'd also say that since this is the very first snapshot, a small slip
> in the schedule is arguably more OK now than it would be for any of
> the subsequent snapshots.
>
> Anyway, it's up to you guys. Just my 2 öre.
>
> Elvis
>
> >
> >        -Inge
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