Hi, 2011/4/28 Inge Wallin <i...@lysator.liu.se>: > Today is officially the tagging for 2.4 or 3.0 snapshot 1. And I hear people > expressing the opinion that the new text layout code should not be merged > before the snapshot. This worries me. > > We do the snapshots for two reasons: > > 1. To get feedback on what we have now. > > 2. To show some activity and let people know that the project is very active. > > I would say that the most important development that we have going right now > is the new text layout engine. It is crucially important for both Words and > Stage. Casper says it is ready, there has been a full-time tester (Swathi) > testing it for over a week and she says that it is better than the old code. > > Yet, if we continue on the set track, the new layout code will not be part of > the snapshot. In fact, Casper says that if this happens he doesn't want Words > to be part of the snapshot at all. This means that reason 1 will be completely > failed. > > So I suggest that we delay the tagging of the snapshot a few days and let > Casper merge the branch. It only touches two parts of the engine: kotext and > the text shape. In addition to that, there are changes in Words and Stage. > Things may be a little bit unstable, but since Swathi says it is already > better than before, I think we can live with that. > > Most importantly, if we *don't* merge it, we will not have words in the > snapshot, which to me is failure, *or* we will have lots of feedback on things > that will be thrown away, maybe even in the time between the tagging and the > actual release day. > > So please, let's agree to merge the text layout code, and if that means > delaying the snapshot a couple of days, then it's a very cheap price to pay.
Although I'm not involved in any of this, I must say I wholeheartedly agree. And saying "but there will be a new snapshot in just a month from which we'll get feedback" does not address the issue you bring up Inge; you'll be getting feedback on essentially dumped code. Also, a month is actually quite a long time at the speed with which things have been moving lately (yes, my units of measurement are mixed up here, but you get what I mean, and please don't bring up relativity ;) I'd also say that since this is the very first snapshot, a small slip in the schedule is arguably more OK now than it would be for any of the subsequent snapshots. Anyway, it's up to you guys. Just my 2 öre. Elvis > > -Inge > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel > _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
