[Kmymoney-devel] Re: trying to set a schedule to release 4.6 and a call for bug triaging

[Alvaro Soliverez]

The only problem I see with this timetable is that we are usually for
at least 2 weeks of string freeze. If we agree that there won't be any
features until after release, I'd say we declare a string on June 15th
until release.
Also, I'll be on travel in the 2nd half of June and with a busy
schedule all through August, so my help will be limited. Whatever time
I have will be mostly devoted to make Alkimia take off for good.

I do follow the progress and I'm very glad to see that you've taken
the amount of bugs back to the 70ish range. Great job!

Regards,
Alvaro

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Cristian Oneț <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Cristian Oneț <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I think it is about time do decide the release schedule of the upcoming 4.6
>> betas and 4.6 itself. Although the pace of development was rather slow lately
>> we have now in trunk enough features so we can ship 4.6. I would like to
>> mention the usage of libalkimia, the CSV importer plugin and the performance
>> improvements (related to the accounts model). I know about anyone currently
>> working on features so I think we should focus on stabilizing 4.6 so we could
>> release it.
>>
>> For this we need to make some bug triaging. We already have 156 bugs (where
>> are the good old days we have about 30-70 :)) and a lot of them need extra
>> info. I would like to ask the help of the SVN users to try to review the bug
>> list if they have some spare time. Bugs that don't have any activity for a
>> long time and can't be reproduced are dead anyway and should be closed
>> because, as the list keeps getting bigger, we keep loosing focus of the issues
>> that can and should be fixed.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> I would be also happy if we just triage the bug lists and leave 4.6 for now...
>> since the developers are really busy.
>
> From the lack of feedback on this request I get that everyone is
> really busy with real life. Well I would like that we commit ourselves
> to release 4.6 as soon as possible. For that I have updated the
> release schedule proposal (I've removed one beta from the list since I
> don't consider it necessary) [1]. I know that some things from the
> planned feature set will not make it into this release but since we
> stopped maintaining the stable branch it is important that we release
> 4.6 with the current feature set.
>
> I will work on bugfixes throughout this cycle so we can obtain the
> stability I would desire from other KDE applications in KMyMoney.
>
> Thomas, would this schedule be OK for you (since you'll have to make
> the actual releases)?
>
> We would also need someone to create the 'What's new page', Jack
> already announced that he will review the documentation. I can take
> care of the SVN log between 4.5.3 and 4.6.
>
> Please don't consider this as rushing things, I would just like
> everyone out there to migrate to the new version since a lot of bugs
> have been fixed and I have some free time to commit to this goal.
> We've come a long way since KDE 3 :).
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
>
> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KMyMoney#Version_4.6.0