Features changelog for Calligra 2.4 Beta

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sunday 11 September 2011 Sep, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 10 September 2011 15:05, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 September 2011 Sep, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The beta is coming soon (not yet tagged), but I would like to start gathering
> >> the features (or super major bug fix) list, so that we don't rush this :)
> >
> > For Krita, we had about 1400 commits during the 2.4 development lifecycle which took about eight months (actual count is a bit difficult to do, this is krita + pigment + colorengines). This excludes the commits made in the feature branch during the 2.3 feature freeze. Of course, there's lots of cool work which likely won't be in 2.4, but in a later release, like Matus Talcik's opencl filter plugin or Torio Mishi's animation plugin.
> 
> BTW, how do use count commits?

I copy every krita/pigment commit mail into a separate folder, remove the Re: messages and let kmail count :-). It's not scientific, but that's not necessary, since it's just to give a ballpartk figure.

> 
> I am looking at master only and run something like this for Kexi:
> 
> % git shortlog -s -n --since="Dec 12 2010" -e --no-merges kexi
> libs/koreport/ libs/koproperty/ plugins/reporting/
> 
> (notice use of --no-merges)
> 
> And how to find the date is interesting question since work happens in
> feature branches in parallel even before tagging previous major
> release.
>

I didn't count those this time.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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