On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:26:45 +0100 Christian Stimming <christ...@cstimming.de> wrote:
> Dear all, > > the German online banking (HBCI) users are facing a major version > upgrade in many online banking servers, which requires an update on > the client side as well (i.e. an updated libaqbanking). However, our > gnucash 2.4 branch and in particular its Windows build is locked on > some older aqbanking version due to its older gtk version setup. In > order to continue online banking support, those users need either a > 2.4.x windows build with newer gtk (>= 2.20), or we need to branch > off a new stable series 2.5.x/2.6.x rather soon. > > As 2.4.0 is now 12 months old, I'd rather prefer to have a new > stable branch started very soon. There is some ongoing work on trunk, > but this isn't a problem: New testing code is orthogonal to a new > release, and new features which happen to be not yet stable can still > be disabled in the stable branch. > > It is not a solution to point those users to trunk versions, > especially due to the incomplete translations in trunk. Hence, if we > think we can call trunk "stable enough", we consequently should > branch off a new stable branch from the current status. > > And indeed I believe current trunk to be rather stable in terms of > the code base. There haven't been any newly discovered serious errors > in the main code for quite some time. We should make good use of > this stability, branch off a new stable branch so that it can get > translated, and continue the main development on a new trunk rather > soon. > > Potential timeline: > - 2.5.0 unstable release within the next 1-2 weeks (e.g. Sunday > 11th) with a call for translation > - Additional 2.5.x unstable releases every two weeks > - Branch off a 2.6 branch at release 2.5.2 or 2.5.3 so that trunk > is allowed to be unstable again > - Add another 2.5.x unstable releases > - Have 2.6.0 in February or March > > Major new user-visible features: > - Windows: Using new gtk version > - Updated online banking for German banks (HBCI) > - Very large number of bugfixes > - Customer / Vendor overview pages > - Customer overview reports > - ... please insert your favorite new feature here - Line charts for Net Worth > > What do you think? > > Regards, > > Christian > All seems reasonable to me. I've been testing/using trunk with business functions regularly with no problems. Mike E _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
