Well Christian, this is timely. For about the first time in 6 months or so I have some bandwidth to be able to do some release work. I am not sure right now that I'd be able to handle a more often release cycle that gnucash 1.10/2.0 release would entail, but I'd certainly be willing to devote some time towards it. As for 1.8.12, do we still want to do the release build on rh7.3 or use a perhaps more modern build of rh?
Chris On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 22:05 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: > Hi Developers, > > two different issues just popped up about the current gnucash development. > First, some latest changes in CVS seem to have introduced unexpected > conflicts, though the changes are considered to be of lower priority by many > developers here. Second, the pressure for a gnome2-gnucash is increasing > all around. I have some proposals as a response to these points, and I'd like > to explain these here. > > I think that gnucash isn't that far away from an actual gnome2 release > anymore. However, we as a developer team have been lacking a clear > communication about the current status, the currently important goals, and > the roadmap for the near-future development. I propose that we should firmly > restating the actual vision for gnucash and the current view of the > developer team on the best roadmap to a gnome2 release. Something like: "The > gnome2 port of gnucash is under way. At first, we will try to keep all major > features of the 1.8.x release but under the new GUI toolkit. This might be > achieved in the next 2..4..6 months. Only after we achieve an initial > gnucash-gnome2 series, we will focus on improving the existing features and > add brand-new additional features to keep our status as the best free finance > manager around." As a relatively easy technical step to underline our > commitment to a gnome2 release, I would suggest to merge back the > gnucash-gnome2-dev branch into HEAD. On IRC, David Hampton already agreed to > work on this important CVS action. > > Related to this is the question about the qof-work, which is not immediately > vital for the gnucash-gnome2 port. In my opinion the work in that area is > going on well, but unfortunately the goals of the qof-work and those of other > developers silently diverged at some point. I think we should clearly confirm > that the architectural changes related to qof, including the division between > an external libqof and gnucash, are *not* immediatly the focus of the > gnucash-gnome2 port. This work should therefore (please, please) *not* > interfere with work that improves the gnome2 port and only the gnome2 port. > The technical solution to that issue is quite simple: I would suggest that > the qof-work should get its own CVS branch (qof-devel or similar), and then > those working on qof will be responsible for merging other people's changes > into that branch. This will of course be quite easy once the gnome2-branch is > merged back into HEAD, so that the HEAD branch will be the point for the > gnome2 progress. > > And additionally I would again propose to have a 1.8.12 release, because it > contains numerous bugfixes which should be released (please please :). I > would > volunteer in the tarball preparation and the necessary announcements. > > An interesting side-effect of a 1.8.12 release is that we as a developer team > communicate the fact that we're alive and active and caring about the users, > all the while such a release is technically quite easy for us. And of course > the respective announcement can be used to communicate the active gnome2 > progress. > > Regards, > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > -- RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490. Checkpoint Certified Security Expert 2000 & NG -------------------------------------------- |^| | | |^| | |^| | | Life out here is raw | | |^| | But we will never stop | |_|_| | We will never quit | / __> | cause we are Metallica |/ / | \ / | | -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
