[RkWard-devel] RKWard 0.4.5pre1, 0.4.5 release process

[SJR]

Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 10:28 schrieb I. Soumpasis:
> Hi there!
>
> I updated the greek translation to the new version, which I have attached.

Great, thanks! Do you think you could also make a small announcement if RKWard 
0.4.5 is released?

>
> Hope in the future I could help in development. For now I'm learning
> programming. I have in my mind writing some plugins but for the moment
> don't know how.

The way I started was to look into the references given by Thomas and of 
course in existing plug-ins. A good one to start from is that for T-test if 
based if the result should be a test and for plots are the histogram and 
box-plot rather good one.
Here is the reference to the documentation:
http://rkward.sourceforge.net/devel.php?content=documentation

The documentation for R is also important. I started here
http://sjar.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/r-tutorials-and-manuals/
 a small collection of useful docs but it's far from complete. I'm open for 
suggestions! Statistics with R by Vincent Zoonekynd is one of the best I'm 
aware of.

Try to get a rough overview how it works then try to reuse an existing one. If 
you get in trouble you will certainly find help here. At the beginning it 
took me days even to write something simple (Distribution plug-ins e.g.) and 
it would haven been to no avail without the help of Thomas. But I got faster 
(but fare from perfect). I hope that you don't get the impression that I want 
to push you! I just hope that my experience is of some help for you.

@Thomas: What about two kind of a very simple dummy plug-ins which demonstrate 
the basic concepts and most important state policies and conventions of 
RKWard? I think of one that does a simple plot and the other that does a 
certain test. In addition the pluginmap would be required too. Another thing 
we might start after the 0.4.5 release?

>
> 2007/1/9, Thomas Friedrichsmeier 
<thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Since there are only two of us actively committing to SVN at the moment,
> > and we both have our feature changes in, I rushed the feature freeze, and
> > started the release process for 0.4.5. More on the details of that below.
> >
> > First, however, I'd like to announce a preview release of 0.4.5:
> > http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward-0.4.5pre1.tar.gz
> >
> > Major changes in this release include:
> > - many new plugins
> > - rework of the code generated by most plugins
> > - added help system (with only some few pages, so far)
> > - several small fixes and improvements as seen in the ChangeLog at the
> > end of this mail.
> >
> > One change in particular I'd like to get your feedback on (if you don't
> > like it, it's not too late to remove it from the release, yet):
> > The "Edit", "View", and "Run" menus, as well as the "Run" toolbar are now
> > always shown, regardless of which part/window is currently active.
> > The "Output" menu was removed entirely ("Flush Output" was moved to Edit,
> > and "Refresh Output" was move to View).
> > The idea behind these changes is, that now the menus will no longer "jump
> > around" whenever you switch, e.g. between a help window and an editor
> > window. The contents of the menus will still change, but the position
> > remains fixed. Does this seem like a good idea, or do you think it causes
> > more harm than good?
> >
> > Of course besides this, please do some testing on the preview release, so
> > we can fix the most serious bugs before the official release.
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > The following section is of interest mostly to people with SVN write
> > access. Feel free to skip over:
> >
> > RKWard SVN is now split into the regular development branch, and a
> > release branch. This allows us to continue doing all sorts of changes on
> > the development branch, while only bug-fixes, translation and
> > documentation updates go to the release branch.
> > To work on the development branch, or follow it, proceed as usual. To
> > work on the release branch, you will have to do an additional checkout to
> > a separate directory:
> >
> > svn co
> > https://rkward.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rkward/branches/release_branch
> >_0.4.5
> >
> > and the usual
> > make -f Makefile.svn
> > ./configure
> >
> > Many changes you make to one branch will also be of interest to the
> > other, requiring two separate commits. If in doubt, continue working on
> > the development branch only, and notify me about which changes are
> > relevant for the release branch.
> > Or you may decide to do all your work on the release branch (minding the
> > feature freeze), and I'll take care of applying relevant patches to the
> > development branch.
> >
> > -------------
> >
> > Release schedule:
> > If nothing grave turns up during testing, I intend to prepare an official
> > release around the 21st of January. The date may vary depending on the
> > time I have available and assorted other factors.
> >
> > Translations:
> > Now is a good time to update your translations! The most recent .po and
> > .pot files can be downloaded here:
> > http://rkward.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rkward/branches/release_branch_0
> >.4.5/rkward/po/ Or take them from the po subdirectory of the 0.4.5pre1
> > release.
> > This time around we will avoid any source string changes between now and
> > the release as much as reasonably possible (i.e. strings may only be
> > changed for important bugs), so you have stable base to work on.
> >
> > Please send in your translations (or commit them to SVN, if you have
> > access) no later than January 20.
> >
> > Also, please make sure to coordinate your translation efforts either on
> > this list, or at least with any people mentioned as previous translators
> > for your language, so you won't duplicate each other's efforts.
> >
> > Documentation:
> > The release branch is open for documentation updates (as those are not
> > currently translatable anyway), and now that there is a help system,
> > there is a lot of documentation to be written. If you can find some time,
> > your contribution would be highly welcome!
> >
> > Regards
> > Thomas
> >
> > ------------------
> > ChangeLog for 0.4.5pre1:
> >
> > - new Console RMB actions: "copy selection cleaned" and "run selection"
> > - added a basic help system, and some introductory help pages
> > - plug-in for skewness and kurtosis added
> > - plug-ins for distribution analysis added
> > - plug-ins for new plots (stripchart & density plot)
> > - enhancements to existing plot plug-ins
> > - removed the "output" menu; entries were moved to "Edit" and "View"
> > - always show all top level menus
> > - code generated for most plugins cleaned and simplified
> > - new function rk.results () for use in plugins
> > - fix: the output window would not refresh changed plot images (unless
> > closed and reopened)
> > - fix several minor issues as identified by the "krazy" source code
> > checker - allow varslots to request objects of specified dimensionality
> > and length - fixed: integer spinboxes with starting values greater than 1
> > would get unreasonable change steps
> > - fix compilation with some versions of KDE / GCC
> > - small improvements to syntax highlighting definition
> > - in console, make cursor go to empty next line after pressing enter,
> > before there is output (more like in the real console)
> > - add "run selection" option to command log
> > - script editor commands are piped through the console (by default; this
> > is configurable)
> > - assorted cleanups
> >
> >
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