Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0 - closing release/2.8.0 branch

2012-08-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Do we have a volunteer (Thorsten?) to tag the branches as 2.8.0 to mark the official close of changes for 2.8.0(.0)? You might want to wait until you cut the release before laying down the tag... for 2.4.0 and 2.6.0, we set the tag version/2.x.0-final. I'll set the tag version/2.8.0-final

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 2.8.0 is out!

2012-08-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, for the third time in a row, we were able to release a new version of FlightGear in time and following our Release Plan. After v2.4.0 exactly one year ago and v2.6.0 in February, FlightGear 2.8.0 has been released today! The Windows installers and the source and data tarballs are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FW: Compute ground elevation dynamically for STG format

2012-08-27 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Computing constant values at runtime is bad design and we should not do that. No matter if we notice a significant increase in load time now or not. The ground elevation at a specific point is well known at scenery generation time and that is where the vertical position of an object has to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gear transit times

2012-08-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 30.08.2012 03:51, schrieb castle...@comcast.net: Hi, Is it possible to specify gear up and down transit times for each gear? In real airplanes the gear never ( well rarely, maybe ) sequence in perfect unison. In reviewing the xml files for the 737, I note there are transit times defined

Re: [Flightgear-devel] license

2012-09-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Looks like the dialog is GPL and the screenshot image is CC. Torsten-- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgdata trouble

2012-09-23 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all, there is a WIKI page for this topic: http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Git:_splitting_fgdata Many points have been discussed over and over some time ago. If there is something new that has developed over time, please add it to the wiki page before it gets lost on the mailing list.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...

2012-11-08 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 06.11.2012 22:16, schrieb Durk Talsma: Yes, I also talked to Martin Crompton. James told me later on that you had been in touch with him. My action was rather spontaneous, so I asked him whether we could try to support Saitek products, without me knowing that you were also working on it.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d clouds on multi-display systems (was Re: FSWeekend 2012...)

2012-11-09 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 08.11.2012 23:24, schrieb Stuart Buchanan: I'm confused. From my reading of Durk's post, 3D clouds would appear to work fine for a multi-display system out-of-the-box, but your comment here indicates that there is an issue that requires fixing by restricting the random seed. Hi Stuart,

[Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear release (Feb. 17 2013)

2012-11-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, in just about one month from now we are entering another round of the release process, starting with the four weeks feature freeze period. This is probably a good time to check in all the great and fancy new features that still hide in your local branches. I'd also like to see JSBSim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear release (Feb. 17 2013)

2012-12-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
All in all, for my part it seems rather a 2.10 than a 3.0 - some of the things which I'd like to see in 3.0 are done, but the majority isn't yet. This is probably true. To get to the 3.0 goal sometime in the near future, it's probably a good idea to create a backlog of open items

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real-Time Radio Propagation, Was: Sqlite location

2012-12-10 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, let me chime in here with a personal note, hoping it's not offending anybody. Although I like having accurate and detailed computation of our real-world simulation, I'm not really a friend of the radio propagation code with the level of detail given. Please let me explain why that is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim Piston Engine Idle

2012-12-10 Thread Torsten Dreyer
I'd be grateful for an update of the Dragonfly and the ogeL. The Dragonfly's configuration was a wild guess, and only very vaguely based on real numbers. ogeL's engine is by definition just fantasy ;-) Thanks, Torsten Am 08.12.2012 20:12, schrieb Ron Jensen: I took a quick look through the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which navradio code is considered standard?

2012-12-10 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 22.11.2012 20:44, schrieb ThorstenB: On 22.11.2012 10:08, Adrian Musceac wrote: I've gone ahead and used the new radio code for navaids, but I have a question: which navradio code is considered standard? newnavradio or navradio? navradio is the current/old standard, newnavradio is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real-Time Radio Propagation

2012-12-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi replying to multiple posts here, I'll try to collect and answer to some arguments. First: I totally agree that our current nav/comm radio implementation is far from being realistic w.r.t. propagation of the radio signal close to or on the ground. This should be improved. I spent an hour

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real-Time Radio Propagation

2012-12-14 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Adrian, you are doing an excellent job at marketing your product ;-) As I do not have the time to proof you wrong, you deserve the chance to proof me wrong! I'll shut up now and stop objecting against merging your code. I won't be able to merge it myself before we enter the feature freeze

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real-Time Radio Propagation

2012-12-14 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 13.12.2012 16:28, schrieb geneb: Um, no he's not. He just happens to be a contributor like the rest of us. :) There is no herder for the Free Range Cats that make up the FlightGear project. :) How disappointing ;-) Frankly, I think your addition to FlightGear is fantastic and a needed

[Flightgear-devel] Performance

2012-12-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi everybody, I just had the chance to compile a recent git-pull on my old and battered linux-notebook workhorse and with great delight, I noticed that I can run FlightGear again with 26fps at KSFO. I had to strip down most eye candy shaders for the GeForce Go 7400 but 3D clouds render fine

[Flightgear-devel] Release Progress: Feature Freeze is active

2012-12-18 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, just a short reminder: The feature freeze for the next release is active. For those who are not familiar with our release plan (http://wiki.flightgear.org/Release_Plan): No new features or major changes shall be pushed onto the development streams (neither source nor data). This period is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear release (Feb. 17 2013): Version 2.10

2012-12-18 Thread Torsten Dreyer
I have just pushed the new version number 2.10 to simgear, flightgear and fgdata along with the tag version/2.10.0 for all three repos. Make sure you pull all three repositories to avoid a version conflict. After the creation of the release branches on Jan., 17th the version numbers will again

[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim Synch with FlightGear

2013-01-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi JSBSim and FlightGear lists, should we sync the latest JSBSim code into FlightGear for the next release, scheduled for February this year? If so, please do this very soon so there is some time to rule out any oddities before I create the release branches on January, 17th. Thanks, Torsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim Synch with FlightGear

2013-01-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 13.01.2013 20:33, schrieb Stuart Buchanan: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Torsten Dreye wrote: Hi JSBSim and FlightGear lists, should we sync the latest JSBSim code into FlightGear for the next release, scheduled for February this year? My vote is not to sync at this point. I'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim Synch with FlightGear

2013-01-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
I had hoped that we could do this a couple of months ago, but not synching JSBSim with the latest FlightGear would be very, very unfortunate. I'm not sure when the last sync occurred (does anyone know?), but there have been a lot of new features and bug fixes. Development has been very active.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim Synch with FlightGear

2013-01-14 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 14.01.2013 03:57, schrieb Jon S. Berndt: Outerra will be more up to date than FlightGear with respect to JSBSim. It's hard to be the best all the times ;-) Torsten -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET,

[Flightgear-devel] Heads up: release branch creation startet NOW

2013-01-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all, today is the 17th of January and I am going to create the release branches now . Please stay clear of the active runway and don't push anything to FlightGear, SimGear and FGDATA on gitorious. I'll post a message when I'm done. Those, who are involved in the creation of release

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: release branches are ready,

2013-01-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 17.01.2013 19:03, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: I'll post a message when I'm done. Done. Version 2.10.0 now lives on the release/2.10.0 branches on SimGear, FlightGear and FGDATA to be released around the 17th of February. SimGear and FlightGear next branches as well as FGDATA master branch

[Flightgear-devel] Sync with JSBSim

2013-01-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, I have just synced the latest and greatest JSBSim into FlightGear. I flew a quick pattern with the SenecaII (the only JSBSim aircraft, I have a rating for) and found no quirks. Please check, if everything is still working in more complex aircraft. Greetings, Torsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ati viewport bug

2013-01-28 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Any chance to wrap this into something like if( true == getprop(/sim/use-ati-hack) ) { addTheEmptyPrerenderCamera(); } else { doNothing(); } Am 28.01.2013 18:56, schrieb James Turner: http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=385 Is about a problem with the viewport

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Short Reference for 2.10.0

2013-01-29 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Done. Am 29.01.2013 22:55, schrieb Stuart Buchanan: Hi All, I've just pushed a small commit checking in new versions of the FG Short Reference, something I should have done with the updated Manual a while back. If someone could cherry-pick the commit into the release branch, that would be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release candidates

2013-01-29 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Didn't he say GiB? And CDs are an ancient technology... Thanks for building the RC. We need to get this automated some day. Or at least documented... (another one from famous last words: if you have to do it more than once, automate it. If you can't automate it, document it.) Torsten Am

[Flightgear-devel] Final release checklist

2013-02-11 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all unless we don't have any major release blockers, we are going to release version 2.10 during the next weekend. So, if there is anything still overlooked, please shout out now. Do we have the latest getstart.pdf compiled and picked into the release branch? Anything else to think about?

[Flightgear-devel] Release 2.10.0: Decision Altitude

2013-02-15 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all, at one point during every ILS approach you reach the decision altitude with two options: continue approach or go around. Being the copilot on our approach into the 2.10 release, I'd call out minimum, approach lights in sight, continue! If no one shouts out loudly _NOW_, I'm going to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.10.0: final tags for 2.10.0

2013-02-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 15.02.2013 16:16, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: If no one shouts out loudly _NOW_, I'm going to tag the release branches tomorrow (Saturday) morning (Central European Time) and give the package managers the GO to build and distribute the bundles. That should give us a ready-to-download release

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.10.0: Decision Altitude

2013-02-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hy Yves Sorry, I do not understand your question. Could you clarify, please? Torsten Am 16.02.2013 00:17, schrieb ys: Hi Torsten What does mean no public answer in this list for this decision ? -Yves Am 15.02.2013 um 16:16 schrieb Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de: Hi all, at one point

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.10.0: final tags for 2.10.0

2013-02-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
To my knowledge, this is a fully automated task, which is croned at each update. So for the online stuff everything seems to be fine. The only thing I do not know is who is taking care to update the getstart.pdf files pushed into the installers and tarballs for the release. Ah, good news. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Low visibility issues

2013-03-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 28.02.2013 16:38, schrieb Curtis Olson: We've always been able to set the individual weather parameters, either through the built in weather dialog box, or by setting raw property values. Setting raw property values allows nasal script control over the weather (as I'm sure you well know)

[Flightgear-devel] reminder: entering feature freeze now

2013-06-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi everybody, for most of us, it's June, 17th which marks the day for the feature freeze period, lasting until July, 17th. Everybody is invited to walk through the lessons learned section of our release plan at http://wiki.flightgear.org/Release_plan the bugtracker at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reminder: entering feature freeze now

2013-06-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
snip I apologize for missing the point. No need to apoligize at all. If anybody is annoying somebody, it's me with my scheduled emails about release deadlines, my requests for following a specific release procedure and for raising discussions about version numbers. Some time ago, we agreed on

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear build fails

2013-06-25 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, I'm failing to build SimGear on 64bit linux: EffectGeode.cxx:83:136: error: no matching function for call to ‘osg::Geometry::setVertexAttribArray(int, osg::Geometry::ArrayData)’ OSG is stable 3.0.1 from svn (same with OSG trunk) SimGear is git next from today Yes, I rm-rf'ed previous

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear build fails

2013-06-28 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 27.06.2013 09:58, schrieb James Turner: On 26 Jun 2013, at 23:05, Thomas Geymayer tom...@gmail.com mailto:tom...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Alex! I've just commited your patch. Yes thank indeed Alex, it's a relief to know someone is keeping bleeding-edge OSG working, since the rate of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reminder: entering feature freeze now

2013-06-28 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 26.06.2013 09:58, schrieb James Turner: Yep, works for me too. James Thanks, Stuart for finding a solution. I have just pushed the version number 2.12.0 to SG, FG and FGDATA. Torsten -- This SF.net email is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot filters

2013-07-27 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Post a diff or the modified files or a link to a tarball here and I'll have a look. Probably a good start for me to get back into the loop after almost two years of absence... Torsten Am 26.07.2013 21:11, schrieb Alan Teeder: I have added a washout/high-pass filter and an integrator to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot filters

2013-07-28 Thread Torsten Dreyer
like typelow-pass/type or typehigh-pass/type. That would not double existing code. * What is the purpose for adding alias names for existing filters? Cheers, Torsten Am 27.07.2013 10:27, schrieb Alan Teeder: *From:* Torsten Dreyer mailto:tors...@t3r.de *Sent:* Saturday, July 27, 2013 8:47 AM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2013-08-05 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Tomash the navradio code is far from being perfect and and least to attempts for improvements exist. Unfortunately, both have currently stalled due to several reasons. The first is in newnavradio which you can use by setting use-new-navradio type=boolfalse/use-new-navradio in your aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2013-08-05 Thread Torsten Dreyer
, or it computes magnetic variation on the fly? Do we need to track magnetic variation change every year and manually edit nav.dat for it? 2013/8/5 Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de mailto:tors...@t3r.de Hi Tomash the navradio code is far from being perfect and and least to attempts

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.12 is branched

2013-08-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Permission granted ;-) As everybody seems to be caught in some real life trouble, I can't see a better way to get the release out than delaying it for a while. Would two weeks be enough for everybody? That will get us to the weekend Aug, 31/Sep 1. Torsten Am 13.08.2013 16:56, schrieb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New release date for 2.12

2013-08-15 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Good news, indeed and kudos to Virgin Media! Curt and James, what would you think about publishing the release during the weekend Sept. 14./15.? Or would you prefer to stick to the 17th (a Tuesday)? Torsten Am 15.08.2013 09:21, schrieb James Turner: On 14 Aug 2013, at 21:57, Curtis Olson

[Flightgear-devel] Heads up: A-10, B-52F, AN-2225 and MiG-15 and users of moving-average filter

2013-09-09 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all, the implementation of the autopilot filter moving-average has changed. Actually, the previous implementation gave incorrect results and this bug has now been fixed in the next branch. A quick grep through the Aircraft folder came up with A-10, B-52F, AN-2225 and MiG-15 using the

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