2.6.0 tag is set on...

[C. Boemann]

On Monday 04 February 2013 15:33:05 Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Monday, February 04, 2013 10:00:05 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > The conclusion on IRC was to reenable it for 2.6.1 (in two weeks).
> 
> That sucks badly for Calligra Author since the only thing that we can
> actually say that we bring to the table is ebook export.
> 
> The filter was arbitrarily disabled due to a crash, then *not* reenabled
> when the crash was fixed. The disabling was done by people who are not
> involved in Author and I'm pretty sure the same is true for the IRC
> discussion.
> 
> What I am - actually - a little bitter about is that the filter was just
> disabled without any discussion with me the very day before the tagging.
There is nothing to be bitter about - it had to be disabled or fixed. Crash on 
save is the worst kind of data loss right preventing any kind of recovery. You 
were not around and it affects Words too, so I feel in my right to make such a 
decision.

I worked with moji until 3 am trying to fix it, whereas you went to bed. I'm 
sorry, but I think I went beyond the call of duty here, and I'm sorry I didn't 
wake up before Cyrille had started the tagging, so I could have backported and 
re-enable the filter. But at 3 am at night I didn't feel clear minded enough to 
check that no other problems were lingering. The worst thing I could have done 
was re-enable something that is a grave dataloss issue.

This bug is so grave that it should be tested better. I've asked moji to make 
unit tests and Friedrich suggested you should throw our document collection at 
the calligra-converter. I've not seen result of those things yet, and with 
demonstrated crashy behavior I think it's a good thing to give it another 14 
days.

So I would very much agree with Boudewijn that the alternative here is not 
retagging but rather another RC

> And now the IRC discussion, also without me, came to the conclusion that
> it's not so important and that it can just wait two weeks.
No such discussion took place - I contacted Cyrille trying to help by asking 
if it would be at least possible to add the feature in 2.6.1. This alone is 
already out of normal scope - we don't add new features in bugfix releases.

I'll try to not be so helpful the next time around :(

> If you ask me,
> it can't wait two weeks because half of the reason for Author 2.6 has just
> disappeared.
> 
> Can we please reconsider this?
> 	-Inge
> 
I'm against re tagging - but personally would have no problem with postponing 
the release 4 weeks for an RC and then the release.

Also regarding Author, I'm with Boudewijn to be honest. I don't really see 
what Author brings at this point. It doesn't bring anything that isn't in 
Words too and doesn't even have an icon yet. I'm sorry but I think we 
sometimes do things a bit too laissez faire. Having an idea and start on a new 
feature is nice and cool, but without follow-up to make it work it just 
reflects badly on all of us. And by doing Author I also expect you guys to do 
your share of library and Words bugfixing, and not just lofty new features.