Re[2]: [VOTE] Another alpha release?

[Yegor Kozlov <ye...@dinom.ru>]

+1a.

Does the full release mean that HSLF will be moved out of the scratchpad area?

Yegor

NB> * should we do a release now, freeze, work to a release now, release with
NB>     some HSLF apis that are about to change, without excel comment support
NB>     etc, then do another release in the new year once we have that code?

NB> or

NB> * alpha/beta now, beta when we've got the HSLF api tweaks + excel comment
NB>     support in the new year, then freeze and release then?

NB> My main reason for suggesting an alpha was the HSLF api tweaks. If we're 
NB> happy with doing a release where we're planning to change some (admitedly
NB> scratchpad) APIs just after, then I don't see why we can't then move to a 
NB> speedy release.

NB> As for the freeze, once we've done this release (be it alpha or beta), we 
NB> can do an SVN branch for the release candidate (if we decide we want one 
NB> now). That can be frozen, and all bug fixes applied to it and trunk (new 
NB> work only to trunk). The final release can be from there.


NB> I think that whatever happens, we should do a release in a few days time 
NB> (be it alpha or beta, based on voting). Between now and then, we should 
NB> decide if we want this to flow straight into a release candidate process 
NB> (for a -final in late December / early January), with another -final once 
NB> we have comments support etc, or if we want to hold off the -final until 
NB> we have that code in.

NB> I'm not too bothered either way, but then I tend to use nightlies in 
NB> production :)  Do other people want to weigh in?

NB> Nick

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Re[2]: [VOTE] Another alpha release?

[Nick Burch <ni...@torchbox.com>]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Yegor Kozlov wrote:
> Does the full release mean that HSLF will be moved out of the scratchpad 
> area?

No, that'd need another vote. I think we have some way to go before that'd 
be approved (based on past discussion), in terms of functionality, 
documentation, examples etc

Nick

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