On Dec 5, 2011, at 1:26 AM, Christian Stimming 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 > > What do you think?
I have no real opinion about starting a new release series, but to do so just to get the latest versions of Gtk and AQBanking on MSWin makes no sense. I've been shipping OSX bundles with Gtk-2.24 and AQBanking 5 for the whole run of Gnucash 2.4; I don't know what the Linux distros are doing, but I bet that Ubuntu 1110 and Fedora 17 both also provide recent versions of both -- and in any case Gnucash's release number isn't going to change what Gtk and AQB versions a distro provides. In other words, AQB and Gtk versions are completely unrelated to Gnucash version, so if Win32 needs Gtk-2.24 and AQB 5, make a Windows package with those, put it on SF, and write up a "news item" for the website. You could do that today, no Gnucash version changes needed (but if you want to snap off a 2.4.9 this weekend we could do that -- it's about time for a new release). Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
