On Tuesday 24 October 2006 6:46 am, Michael Gerz wrote: > José Matos wrote: > >1.5 Features: > >- Unicode / new encodings. > >- Multiple windows. > >- Change tracking > >- Sessions > > > >- What am I missing more? > > - Outlook? > - Improved dialogs (some 1.4/qt3 dialogs are a PITA)?
OK, I added those topics to my list. I have decided to use LyX to write it. :-) > >How much time do the > >respective owners expect to need to have the new features in such a state > >that they can be presented to users without having them screaming away? > > For change tracking, it will take about two weeks for basic operations > and another two weeks for more complicated stuff (e.g. end-of-par > handling). This is a conservative guess and I assume that I will be the > only one working on CT. OK. > > On the other hand > >we need a quick release, or else all the flurry in the mailing list was > >useless, so I suggest a deadline for the alpha release of three weeks. > > That is Monday, 13 November 2006. > > Alpha (not beta) in three weeks sounds good. > > What about all thoses bugzilla entries? We should be able to drastically > reduce the number of entries. According to a message from Asger that I have not read yet this does not seem so high. I think that the purpose of the alpha release is to have people testing and when finding bugs inserted them in bugzilla. This will give us a better understanding of what needs to be done. > >A: I am not Denmark but I will answer this. The role to follow here is the > >stable series. Not all fixes are welcome at all times, special at the last > >day or minute. :-) > > Please be a bit more generous than we were for 1.4.0. When 1.4.0 was > released (broken, slow, ...) there was a stack of about 50 patches. This > should never happen again! My purpose is to avoid that. > Textual changes (translator work) should be possible even at a very late > stage. I will try to take that into account in our release schedule. > Michael > > PS: I like your email! Good points and a clear vision! Thanks. :-) -- José Abílio
