KStars v3.5.0 Release Date?

[Wolfgang Reissenberger]

Dear all,
I am a little bit concerned that the introduction of StellarSolver is not smooth enough. Please don’t get me wrong, I fully appreciate all the work behind and the intention is perfectly fine.

But a user not familiar with all the discussion behind might be confused with the new UI. When I opened the new Align tab I was surprised that my only choice is StellarSolver and it looked like astrometry.net <http://astrometry.net/> is no longer supported - and I was aware that there was work ongoing behind introducing a new framework.

I then discovered that I could go back to my old  astrometry.net <http://astrometry.net/> solution - but still I am not sure which are the right options so that it simply works as before.

We should be aware that we have a substantial amount of users that use nightly builds or even build from source on their own. And some of them will discover the new setup late in the evening shortly before the photography session starts.

I personally would really appreciate if the old setup with astrometry.net <http://astrometry.net/> and ASTAP remains as an option directly on the Align tab and we leave us more time for the transition.

Does that make sense to you?

Cheers
Wolfgang

> Am 05.10.2020 um 12:55 schrieb Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>:
> 
> I concur! The documentation needs to be updated. I don't think there is time _before_ 3.5.0 is released fully, but hopefully close to the release date. 
> 
> 
> --
> Best Regards,
> Jasem Mutlaq
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:03 AM Hy Murveit <murveit at gmail.com <mailto:murveit at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Another thing re 3.5.0.
> 
> I propose we get the kstars manual in better shape--review the major sections and make sure they're up to date.
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> https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-edu/kstars/index.html <https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-edu/kstars/index.html>
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> There seems to be some issue now where the manual has not been updated to reflect the latest additions (e.g. I put in a section about Analyze on August 17, but it is still not showing up).  Once that issue is resolved (I have no info about that), then I can update the Ekos Guider and Analyze sections. Perhaps others can pick a section or two?
> 
> Hy 
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> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 8:05 AM Wolfgang Reissenberger <sterne-jaeger at openfuture.de <mailto:sterne-jaeger at openfuture.de>> wrote:
> Same for me, sounds good.
> 
> My question is how we should handle the two bug fixes contained in https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/merge_requests/60 <https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/merge_requests/60> At least one of the bugs is quite severe: currently, EKOS cannot handle two meridian flips in the same session.
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> On the other side, the entire meridian flip functionality is quite complex and each fix bears the risk of regressions. That’s why I concentrated on developing automated test cases, which are meanwhile included in MR 60. They cover the most common situations where a meridian flip occurred.
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> From my perspective, it would make sense to include MR 60 into v3.5.0 - as long as the MR review is successful.
> 
> Wolfgang
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>> Am 01.10.2020 um 06:20 schrieb Hy Murveit <murveit at gmail.com <mailto:murveit at gmail.com>>:
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>> Sounds good--perhaps a couple of weeks testing, assuming all goes well.
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>> For me, it would be good to know ahead of time any StellarSolver algorithmic (sextractor parameter) changes to 
>> focus and guider, or if the changes should be identical from a numbers point of view--just quicker/better.
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>> Hy
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>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 9:07 PM Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com <mailto:mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Today I discussed StellarSolver integration progress with Robert and it's coming along nicely. I think within a week we'd have a version that can be tested by users. Then perhaps we give another 7-10 after that for a full release of v3.5.0?
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>> The other major milestone is DSO: integration https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/merge_requests/93 <https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/merge_requests/93>
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>> Though I think this would probably slip to v3.5.1 since it's still in progress, but very promising indeed and Valentine would make KStars finally load large DSOs catalogs without significant performance impacts!
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>> Are there any pending milestones for this release?
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>> Best Regards,
>> Jasem Mutlaq
>> 
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