[Digikam-devel] 0.9.0 final release plan...

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hi all,
>
> After more than one year of active development, I pround to announce in
> this room than the 0.9.0 final release date is near.
>
> Thursday, I have talk with Gerhard Kulzer by phone. He is agree to do the
> final release tarballs and the announce before Christmas.
>
> But there are some points to fix before final release. From B.K.O, i have
> tagged some files with a VHI priority :
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134999
>
> ==> this one is the must important and must be fixed before final release.

The problem is known, there is a patch, the patch works. So yes, it will be 
fixed. The only reason that I did not yet commit it is that I do not 
understand why we need to use strcmp and QString::operator= does not work.

>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133944
>
> ==> can be delayed later.

No suitable backtrace, distribution-specific bug reports which have been 
closed. Don't know.

>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134037
>
> ==> patch not yet tested. Can be delayed later.

I have not followed this really closely. Though I don't want to disappoint 
Debajyoti Bera ;-)

>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136903
>
> ==> require important changes in implementation. can be delayed later.

I have not yet tried to reproduce this because I have no full partition 
available.

>
> About others "Crash" files from B.K.O, i have pinged all reporters. If
> there are no more feedback, we will ignore these files for final release
> and continue investiguations later.
>
> Also, in "metadata" component, some crash reports are relevant of Exiv2
> 0.11 or are dupplicate of 134999. we can ignore these files.
>
> So, if i resume, only #134999 must be fixed. Marcel, you have follow this
> file. Can you give us a recent feedback ?
>
> About me, i will go in holidays from Friday 22 december 2006 to 3 january
> 2007. I will have no phone, no computer, no internet during this period.
>
> For that, i propose to build release tarballs next week when #134999 will
> be fixed. Like this, i will be available to supports Gerhard with final
> release stuff...

Fine with me!

>
> A nice week end
>
> Gilles