I also agree. If it really is a matter of days rather than weeks. It really would be a shame to miss one of the biggest and most noticeable change in words. Not to mention missing the whole application, which would in my opinion be a big problem PR wise.
Pierre On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Elvis Stansvik <elvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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