[Kstars-devel] freeze date

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

Looks like it's now "official", since Allen announced the beta2 freeze on k-d 
and k-c-d:
http://www.nabble.com/Prepare-for-a-Feature-Freeze-tf4250808.html

regards, and happy hacking!
Jason

On Friday 10 August 2007 11:03, Jason Harris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On the release-team mailing list we are hashing out a plan to postpone the
> application freeze date until the release of beta2.  This is currently
> scheduled for Aug 20th, but it may slip a bit.
>
> While the decision has not yet been finalized, it looks like we still have
> 1.5 to 2 weeks to get new features in for 4.0.0.
>
> Note that the messages freeze is supposed to happen on that date also.
>
> We should compile a list of things we want to get into the 4.0 release, and
> decide what is realistic.  Here's what I'd like to see:
>
> + (James) HTM and SkyLabeler
> + (Jasem) DBUS interfaces working, including the ScriptBuilder tool
> + (me) All Calculator modules updated to simplified layouts, including
> batch modes.
> + (me) Use Quaternions instead of spherical trig to project the sky (much
> of the infrastructure is in place, but I'm having trouble getting it
> working. I've asked Torsten (author of marble) to help me with my
> implementation).
>
> Anything else?  Do we have enough time to get these in (it doesn't have to
> be perfect, we can bugfix after Aug 20th)?  I'm not sure I'll have time to
> finish the Calculator, but I'll do my best.
>
> regards,
> Jason

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Jason Harris
jharris at 30doradus.org