To freeze or not to freeze?

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 16.01.10 22:49:44, Milian Wolff wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat, 16.01.2010:
> > On 16.01.10 22:25:05, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > > David Nolden, 16.01.2010:
> > > > Am Samstag 16 Januar 2010 20:57:14 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > > > > So apparently people are happy with freezing. That would mean
> > > > > complete feature freeze in a bit above 2 weeks (if my calendar is
> > > > > correct). I'll announce it on monday on the list (unless someone
> > > > > objects)
> > > > 
> > > > A total feature freeze in 2 weeks is ok, but only if UI tweaks, like
> > > > making stuff more consistent or renaming it, are not put into the
> > > > "feature" category.
> > > 
> > > Yes, a string freeze should not be started with this feature freeze imo,
> > > there are potentially many places where one would want to clarify or add
> > > things.
> > 
> > We need to give translators time to actually finish the translations. So
> > while we can probably delay the string freeze a bit, we certainly need
> > to give them more than a month to finalize translations - IMHO.
> > 
> > > > Apart from that, there is 2 important mini-features I think that are
> > > > still missing:
> > > > - Path-specific source-formatter settings (you wanted to work on it
> > > > this weekend, so might not be a problem)
> > > > - A blacklist for project-items, so we can finally get the "*~",
> > > > ".bak", ".rej" etc. crap out of quickopen and the project tree.
> > > 
> > > One would probably just have to port the stuff I wrote for the
> > > genericmanager to a base class and reuse it where appropriate.
> > 
> > There's no base class, IMHO would be good just as a utility class that
> > can filter a given list of urls (or strings maybe) based on some config
> > from the project. And of course the kcm to configure this.
> 
> We can create such a base class, better than extending the generic manager 
> (see also other mail). Imo better than a utility, since these features are 
> explicitly tailored in regard to ProjectManagers

Thats true, probably the generic-manager should really expose large
parts of its API to be re-used by other managers. Especially when also
thinking about integration of VCS stuff into the whole game.

Andreas

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