[Kde-imaging] new release thoughts (and thoughts)

[Gilles Caulier]

On Monday 20 November 2006 10:52, Gilles Caulier(UNTRUSTED, sender is 
<kde-imaging-bounces-+caulier.gilles=kdemail.net at kde.org>) wrote:
> On Monday 20 November 2006 11:36, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > Alle 11:24, lunedì 20 novembre 2006, Colin Guthrie ha scritto:
> > > Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >>> Well since 1) and 2) means committing something new on svn, I
> > > >>> believe we should wait for a while to release new kipi, so a week
> > > >>> more it could be a gooda idea.
> > > >
> > > > which are the kipi-plugins dependencies for ipod and libexiv?
> > > > I mean Col couldn't build under Mandriva developer version, that
> > > > should have last release of any packages, reading the svn log
> > > > of README file Gilles said: "update Exiv2 depency to future 0.12
> > > > release".
> > > >
> > > > That makes me thinking that next beta could not be released with such
> > > > limitation, am I wrong?
> > >
> > > I guess Gilles comments on the libexiv related stuff are fair (we wait
> > > for a new release of exiv2 as I understand it).
> >
> > Right, as far as I understood from Gilles there're problems with
> > current libexiv. Now Gilles what do you suggest, we'd better to wait
> > for it?
>
> Well current Exiv2 implementation is fixed. I'm waiting informations from
> Exiv2 author (Andreas Huggel) to see if we can release a new stable version
> named 0.11.1 now witch fix the 0.11 indeep problem.
>

well, this is the copy of a private mail between me and Andreas about Exiv2 
release issue :

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> Andreas, 3 pending B.K.O files can take a while to close if users aren't 
> active (generaly reports on B.K.O are most active during week end.)
> 
> This is my proposal :
> 
> - Do not merge gettext branch into trunk now.
> - Release as well Exiv2 without NLS support to have a clean Exiv2 release 
> before to add new advanced improvements (like NLS, makernote update, etc.)
> - Release Exiv2 with NLS just later (at Christmast for example to have a 
> feedback of gettext implementation from digiKam/kipi-plugins users witch use 
> Exiv2 svn implementation).
> 
> What do you think about ?
> 
Yes, I was thinking of that too. So I'll target to release 0.12 on the 
coming weekend, that's the earliest I can. It will contain what is in 
the trunk now (mostly bugfixes, a few small features and your desc 
updates) plus maybe a few additional minor changes that I'll add this 
week, so it should be very stable.

-ahu.

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Gilles