On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 04:43:13PM +0200, Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: > Hi, > > We have discussed the state of SVN, and concluded the following: > > > *** Trunk is very broken right now **** > > > Basic things like editing, cut, copy & paste, navigation, undo/redo and > so on are broken. Everytime a bug is fixed, 10 new ones are discovered. > Everytime a fix is committed, 5 new buggy features have been added in > the mean time. > > When things are as broken as they are, we need to take the right steps > to fix it. > > We decide the following rules to bring things back on track: > > > ** NO NEW FEATURES ARE ALLOWED FROM RIGHT NOW ** > > ** NO MORE CLEAN-UP IS ALLOWED FROM RIGHT NOW ** > > ** ONLY ONGOING WORK CAN CONTINUE FROM RIGHT NOW ** > > > So ongoing work like unicode, change tracking, and multiple windows can > continue. Other work has to wait, including performance work. > > Once things are back to working, 1.5 should be released. It might be a > slow release, it might not support the encodings people want, but at > least it will be useful for most people that use LyX now. Those that are > unhappy about the release will have to settle with 1.4, or wait until > 1.6 is released. > > When 1.5 is released, development can open again for 1.6, and stuff like > performance and new encodings can be added. > > We hope you will agree with this, and understand that we won't have to > do the drastic thing we had to do with 0.13 where we dropped years of > development and started over again from a stable base. > > In a situation where LyX becomes worse every other day, we can not > afford the luxury of setting an ambitious goal for the release. We will > have to disappoint some people's expectations for the sake of not > loosing the progress that has been made. > > Regards, > > Asger, Juergen, André, José & Lars
Sounds good to me. The current set of new features is already very ambitious. Let's not take any unnecessary risks at this point. However, I would spend a few weeks on further debugging a nominally working 1.5 branch before the first official release. Of course pre-releases or rc's would be OK. And I also think performance should be at least non-painful for 1.5.0. - Martin
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