Going forward

[Cyrille Berger]

Hi,

On Thursday 24 September 2009, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> I'm assuming KOffice will go for a 3-month feature release scheme where
> features will be integrated when they are ready, so not destabilizing the
> apps.
Just to make things extra clear, it requires git (or dvcs), it requires people 
to know about git, it requires a clear process, so I won't expect that to 
happen "soon", rather in at least a year. (assuming KDE switch to git soon)

> For the 2.1 release we are focussing on stability a lot, and I think that's
> already really paying off. At least, we keep about the same number of crash
> reports, but it's different crash reports every day, so we're fixing bugs.
yup :)

> For 2.2, I think we should really go for performance, profiling, analyzing,
> fixing -- even if that makes a refactoring necessary. The following areas
>  have known issues:
> 
> * tile engine (the old one has the BKL, the new one doesn't swap yet &
>  isn't yet really fast)
> * mask generation for brushes (we analyzed this in Berlin)
> * iterator caching
> * projection recomposition: we recompose everything immediately, even
>  pixels that are not visible, so region-of-interest might be a good first
>  step.

Sounds good to me.

-- 
Cyrille Berger