KStars v3.5.0 Release Date?

[Jasem Mutlaq]

One way we can meet Oct. 22nd release date is by defauling on Linux/Mac to
Local astrometry.net + Builtin Extractor (i.e. whatever used by
astrometry.net)

This way users can still experiment with built in SEP and stellarsolver if
they need to.

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:35 PM Hy Murveit <murveit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rob,
>
> Thanks for your hard work on this!
>
> As we discussed privately, I have been unable to get plate-solving to work
> with the internal StellarSolver on my RPi4.
> Do you think this is unique to me--that is, have others been able to do
> so? If this a general problem, then I think Oct 22 is too aggressive a
> release target, as we should give our advanced users at least a few weeks
> of using the software more-or-less successfully on their target
> environments. If this is something specific to me, but others are
> successfully plate-solving on RPi's, then perhaps I'm over-reacting.
>
> FWIW, I just tried to send the full bug report I sent you out to this
> devel list, but it got blocked (I guess one of my screenshots was too
> large).
> Hopefully the moderator will accept my thread soon, and it will be
> available to all.
>
> Until that happens, where should we post bugs related to  3.5.0? This
> thread? New threads on kstars-devel?
>
> Again, I want to emphasize that this is a huge undertaking and I
> really appreciate the effort,
> Hy
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:47 AM Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I also agree 100%, we are not ready by Oct. 15th.  There are still
>> several loose ends that need to be tied up on my end, as well as writing up
>> documentation for how to use StellarSolver.  Since it is a major release of
>> KStars (3.5.0 vs 4.4.4), I think major changes in the UI and the functions
>> are perfectly fine, but I agree we don’t want to change everything on the
>> user without warning, so we need time to write up documentation and make
>> sure everything is clear and simple for the user to use.  So please let me
>> know what is confusing so that we can try to improve that.  As for your
>> suggestion that we allow the old code to work during a transition period,
>> the issue with that is that the old code is not compatible really.  But
>> that doesn’t mean that we couldn’t make the UI in the Align module *LOOK*
>> like it used to with the combo boxes in align.  I put the options for which
>> source extraction method, which solving method, and which profile to use
>> inside the Options dialog because I thought people would access them less
>> often than the other settings in the align module and I also want those to
>> be available if we plate solve in other places in KStars.  But we could
>> also put those same options at the bottom in the align module as well,
>> which would make it look close to what it used to look like.  There is no
>> reason they couldn’t be in both places.  It might lead to a better
>> transition.
>>
>> On that note I also agree that we weren’t really ready to put all this in
>> KStars master right away, especially because people rely on the master
>> branch of the repo for nightly builds, and we needed to test it thoroughly
>> before integrating it.  I was hoping for more of a testing time period
>> where people could test this on my fork or maybe in a different branch in
>> the main repo and we could have a nice discussion about how to improve it
>> before putting it in the official KStars Master repo.  But, let's not be
>> too hard on Jasem for that, he is a great guy and works incredibly hard to
>> support KStars and INDI and us.   It has caused a little more pressure on
>> me to fix all these problems and get it all integrated, and maybe that was
>> a good thing, because I had mostly finished StellarSolver back in June, and
>> I was not integrating it into KStars very fast at all.  This has pretty
>> much lit a fire under me to get it done.  We already did complain to him
>> about putting it in the main repo so quickly, but it really has worked to
>> get things up and running.  So instead of focusing on that, now that its
>> done, let's work really hard to polish everything up and get it ready for
>> release.  I think we could be on track for a Oct 22nd release.  Please keep
>> testing and I will keep trying to perfect things with StellarSolver and its
>> integration with KStars for the release.  And I am sorry if the integration
>> has caused anybody any issues because it wasn’t ready yet.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Rob
>
>
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