On Thursday 28 April 2011 10:57:55 Inge Wallin wrote: > 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. > > -Inge > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel I couldn't have set it better myself.
I'll probably merge later today best regards Casper _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
