[Kde-imaging] About the incoming release (0.1.0-rc2)

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Mardi 02 Mai 2006 09:29 AM, Achim Bohnet a écrit :
> On Monday 01 May 2006 19:02, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > Hi,
> > first of all apologize to you for my absence in this week-end,
> > I spent it with my family.
>
> Hi Angelo,
>
> IMHO no need to apologize.  Hope you had a very nice time!
>
> > Now here is what i think we can do since we couldn't fix all
> > the bugs at least the critical ones. I can upload the new version
> > as it is in the next couple of days. I've already built a tar.bz2
> > but i'd like to test it first (well I can rebuild again if someone
> > would like to add something else of course :) ).
>
> Please post a download URL so others can test (builds) too.
> I at least would like to check that buildir!=srcdir works ;)
>
> > That has:
> > * a lot of fixing (I added some on changelog)
>
> Not sure if this is the general accepted/used way
>
> o ChangeLog is a list of svn commit msgs  (a script is at e.g.
>   see stable/extragear/graphics/digikam/release_digikam_cl.sh)
>
> o NEWS contains selected fixes and highlights of the release
>   that can be cut & pasted for the announcement e-mail.
>
> FWIW: I tend to have forgoten the revision used for a release
> when I have to svn copy to tags/.  So I added to digikam_release.rb
>
> `export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8; svn info #{name} | egrep '^Last Changed
> (Rev|Date):' > RELEASE.rev`
>
> > * new html export plugin
> > * a wrong side effect to have images gallery export yet and
> >   all the plugins that depend on it don't use new plugin yet.
> > * 3 critical bugs (one probably invalid).
> > This solution could mean we should think to have a rc3 before
> > final, at least to test better new plugin interaction (at least
> > I believe).
> >
> > OTOH we can wait a week and hope we'll fix all the bugs and
> > remove images gallery export.
>
> Release early, release often.  So I would vote for rc2 + rc3

me too.

>
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Angelo
> >
> > P.S. I built also libkexif-0.2.3.tar.bz2  and libkipi-0.1.3.tar.bz2
> > since I don't know if there are changes from last release, let me
> > know if it isn't needed.
>
> Heh, RELEASE.rev could be useful there too ;)  Last libk* annoucement
> I found was from Sep last year. So this should give a overview of
> changes:
>
> 	svn log -r {2005-09-25}:HEAD   libkipi
> 	svn log -r {2005-09-25}:HEAD   libkexif
>
> Libkexif has some meomor ;)

I remember that i have fixed a memory leak into libkexif.

Gilles