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

[SJR]

Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 01:06 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> 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

I thinks we should try to go for newsforge.com this time. The release is a 
good one I think. If they accept and publish it we even have the chance to 
get some money for the project.

>
> 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?

I tried it before reading your mail and unfortunately I don't consent here. It 
was confusing for me (as a normal user)  that both functions which belong 
somehow together are separated this way. I had to search for a while till I 
found it (because I knew it must be somewhere). I would rather prefere both in 
View or even to have two buttons side by side. I frequently made use of both 
when I played with data and charts (e.g. those copied from the graphics 
device).
But it's really better that menus will no longer "jump around".

BTW, what is the reason for having "Configure Pakages" in Workspace besides 
Settings?

>
> Of course besides this, please do some testing on the preview release, so
> we can fix the most serious bugs before the official release.
>

I did not test is very intensive but made some usual test like can I enter 
data and manipulate them (delete ...). Are plugins started and so on. All 
fine for now.

A) One little thing, which is not really is a bug, happens when a chart with a 
huge amount of data is created (sth. above 1000000) and I get "impatient" and 
close the plot plug-ins while the chart is created. My question: If the 
interface for the plug-in is closed is then the started task in R/RKWard 
totally canceled/killed too? I did it several times and sometimes RKWard hang 
sometimes not.

B) Moreover Histogram complains when integer number is chosen:

I created data with "a<-rnorm(1000000)"
---------------------
Histogram
Parameters
Frequency: TRUE 
Breaks algorithm: Integers 
Variable: a 
Tue Jan 9 19:15:48 2007

Fehler in hist.default(a, breaks = seq(as.integer(min(a)) - 0.5, 
as.integer(max(a)) +  : 
	some 'x' not counted; maybe 'breaks' do not span range of 'x'
---------------------
Everything else seems to be fine.


> ----------
>
> 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:
>

Good

> Translations:
> Now is a good time to update your translations!

German is finished

>
> 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!

Long desired and now it is here! I will try to find time next weekend or next 
week for this.

Regards,
Stefan