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

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On Sat, 21 May 2011 20:26:01 -0300
Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at kde.org> wrote:

> 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!

I second that.

Allan
> 
> 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
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