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

[Cristian Oneț]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:26 AM, 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.

Done, I've move the final release to 1st of August 2011 [1].

> 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.

Well, Alkimia deserves the love :).

> 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!
>

Thanks,

Regards,
Cristian

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KMyMoney
> 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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