On Thursday 15 November 2007 09:48:29 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Dear all, > > I think we have enough for a new major release now and I would like us > to start stabilizing the tree VSN. Considering that last alpha/beta > period lasted 6 months I think it's time to launch a new alpha. Jose, > would you like to act as the release manager?
Yes. And I do not expect us to need six months during this cycle. > I don't want to wear that > hat but I would like nevertheless to trigger some discussions. This is > of course only my personal opinion. And that is OK. :-) You have been promissing to recall periodically about the release schedule so you have fulfilled your promise. :-) > Personally I am almost done with code cleanups, except for these > selection painting and session info. WRT new potential developments, > here is my take on them (please add items to the list): > > * At this point, I think XML is really out of the question. Due to its nature I would like it to be the first feature to be added in the next release cycle. > * Porting mathed to unicode and the STIX fonts would be nice but, unless > Andre' is willing to do this now, I think it is too late too. OK. > * Context menus would be nice too but unless we found some volunteers > this has to wait (again). I agree. > * Registered Cursors in the context of multiview would be very nice > (Alfredo, any plan on this?) > > Except for that, the new features need a lot of polishing and we should > concentrate on that. And no last minute changes this time. As soon as the alpha is released no more big features should go in. As soon as the first beta is released I will not allow more small features, only bug fixing. > Abdel. I would like to hear what others think about this, theirs plans and advices about this release cycle. What are the features that are only half implemented and what is Estimated Time Arrival for code completion. -- José Abílio
