On Tuesday 24 October 2006 1:16 pm, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > José Matos wrote: > > Hi fellow developers, > > > > So with this said I look forward to see Georg (who seems to always read > > my mind when it comes to lyx2lyx), Abdel (to pay you a beverage for qt4 > > work) or > > Noted ;-)
Please, remind me then. ;-) > > As a release manager I am a firm believer in the principle of "releasing > > earlier, release often", I also believe that as a project we will only > > survive and thrive if we present a stable product to our users as well to > > (prospective) future developers. No one will waste their time if the > > developing platform is not stable. > > Right... Christmas (2006) would be a perfect date for a delivery :-). At > least the goal should be to release 1.5.0 within a year after 1.4.0. If the first alpha succeeds I would like to have a second alpha first beta by Christmas (this is not a joke ;-) . > > My proposal follows that coming from the meeting to enter a period of > > feature freeze, that is no more features are allowed at this point. > > So, sorry Peter, I guess this is too late for the TabWidget :-( > But don't feel demotivated I reckon such simple and useful addition > would be welcome in 1.5.1, wouldn't it Jose? If you convince Jean-Marc that is OK with me. :-) > > As seen from the discussions from Abdel and Lars we seem to be near from > > a time where frontends will be loaded on demand. > > Yes, that is even possible now. This is not a priority for 1.5, especially because we only have one frontend. :-) > > > > 1.5 Features: > > - Unicode / new encodings. > > - Multiple windows. > > - Change tracking > > - Multiple windows. > > - Sessions > > I think I will fix the major multiple-windows bugs pretty soon now so > that Bo can work on the session stuff. Thanks. > > I trust in your judgement to decide on what is this state. 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. > > I reckon this will be enough time to fix the most obvious and visible bugs. OK. > Abdel. -- José Abílio
