[rkward-devel] Status update

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi all!

I think the sources are in pretty good shape, with most of what's left to do 
before the release being some bookkeeping, and documenting. So I'd like to 
start the timer for the 0.5.1-release.

This time I've put up a timeline at 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Release_Schedule 
. As you can see, I've alotted a pretty long period for testing, mostly 
because I will be away from E-Mail for much of that time.

I will write the usual call for testing, once I've rolled up the -pre3.tar.gz. 
The reason I'm writing to rkward-devel, know, is that I'd like to ask you to 
have a look at 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Automated_Plugin_Testing 
. This is getting fairly important, as the next thing to address after 0.5.1 
will be the plugin scripting language, as previously discussed on this list. 
For one thing, we should finally get started with the switch so we can move 
forward with writing plugins. The other thing is that the performance of the 
PHP-backend in it's current form is pretty much a show-stopper for RKWard on 
Windows (I have tried a good number of things, and simply didn't succeed at 
making this any faster).

Anyway: Automated Plugin Testing. Whenever you can find the time, please take a 
look at the documentation, and try writing one or two tests (or of course much 
more, if you can find the time) for the plugins you created or that you care 
about. Having a decent testing coverage of the existing plugins is very 
important, before we can dare to make large-scale changes to the plugins. So 
I'd really like to get started with this, quickly. Let me know, where I need 
to elaborate on the documentation, or where things just don't work as they 
should.

Regards
Thomas
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