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

2013-07-08 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi Guys, A 30 second thought on this: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: Once we clear past the 2.10, 2.12, etc. series, I'd like to go back to keeping things single digits in the major and minor version numbers and when we run out of a single digits bump up the major

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] reminder: entering feature freeze now

2013-06-26 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Having thought about this a bit more I'm going to propose we do 2.12.0 now and pre-announce 3.0 as the Feb 2014 release to give us just a little more time to prepare and make the 3.0 as polished as possible. After all, it'll be the third major

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

2013-06-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
From: Anders Gidenstam [mailto:anders-...@gidenstam.org] Sent: 26 June 2013 07:41 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] reminder: entering feature freeze now On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Having thought about this a bit more I'm going

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

2013-06-26 Thread James Turner
On 26 Jun 2013, at 08:42, Vivian Meazza vivian.mea...@lineone.net wrote: Makes sense to me, Yep, works for me too. James -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store.

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

2013-06-26 Thread Renk Thorsten
Having thought about this a bit more I'm going to propose we do 2.12.0 now and pre-announce 3.0 as the Feb 2014 release to give us just a little more time to prepare and make the 3.0 as polished as possible. After all, it'll be the third major release in 15 years :) . Okay, works for

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

2013-06-26 Thread James Turner
On 25 Jun 2013, at 22:48, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.com wrote: Declaring that the Feb 2014 release will be 3.0 now will give everyone plenty of notice, and might encourage efforts to fix bugs in the next 6 months. I'm aware that my FG development time is more limited these days, and

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

2013-06-25 Thread Renk Thorsten
Hi Stuart, Ah yes. I remember you mentioning this before, me saying I'd add it to my TODO list, and then failing to do so. Sorry. I've now added it to my wiki TODO list so I don't forget again. Are you thinking about the sprinkling of lights that we put over the terrain, the VASI/PAPI

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

2013-06-25 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Collecting the arguments from this discusson, I can see good points for a 3.0.0 release. Most convincing was Stuarts comparison against 2.0.0 and the progress we made since that version. My suggestion is, we dare to call the 2013 summer

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

2013-06-25 Thread Curtis Olson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.com wrote: Having thought about this a bit more I'm going to propose we do 2.12.0 now and pre-announce 3.0 as the Feb 2014 release to give us just a little more time to prepare and make the 3.0 as polished as possible. After

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

2013-06-24 Thread Renk Thorsten
Referring to the version number discussion, I've been given to understand here http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19t=20137#p185619 that there have been already core developers referring to the next release as 2.12 a while ago who would now be obviously pretty annoyed about it

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

2013-06-24 Thread Gijs de Rooy
part in the discussion. Gijs From: thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 06:27:32 + Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] reminder: entering feature freeze now Referring to the version number discussion, I've been given to understand here

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

2013-06-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Jun 2013, at 07:53, Gijs de Rooy gijsr...@hotmail.com wrote: Wherever I mentioned 2.12, it was because that's the logical follow up on 2.10. If we didn't decide anything, we'd automatically end up with 2.12 instead of 3.0. That's all. I wouldn't worry too much about someone who's

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

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

2013-06-24 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Renk Thorsten wrote: - ALS now works much better with the random trees. I think there's still work to be done with other shaders (presumably the wake shader has still to be ported?) Yes (if that is really a major holdup, I can probably do this within the

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

2013-06-24 Thread grtuxhangar team
Hello, By the way , does the terrain object bug, has been fixed, can we land on buildings and any others solid objects. I for days (may be weeks) i won't have any access to Git , so i won't be able to check it. Thank Ahmad On 24 June 2013 23:14, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: On

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

2013-06-21 Thread Renk Thorsten
I guess the professional you are has done statistics about the FG users world, thus you are able to be more precise about those unfortunate users who are getting only the single frame per second, which hardware? which operating systems ? Strangely enough I have (you might have noticed by now

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

2013-06-21 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:29 PM, James Turner wrote: Emilian has explained on IRC this might be due to the out-of-the-box / default config for Rembrandt being highly suboptimal, which I didn't yet evaluate, I would be delighted to have it more usable. I'm going to test further over the

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

2013-06-21 Thread grtuxhangar team
Hello, The most disappointing , is it seems we are getting better performances with a lower quality Graphic Card ( talking about Nvidia family ). This won't encourage to buy a better one. But more technical explanations , architecture of the computer, operating system... which could explain,

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

2013-06-21 Thread geneb
But hey, since you think I don't know anything anyway and just pretend to be smart here, why don't you go looking for a different and really smart person to code you what you like. Or better yet, do it yourself. Because I have enough of this - I'm suspending my offer to help merging

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

2013-06-20 Thread Renk Thorsten
Pushing in front your supposed to be know how is not an argument , usually the more person' s know how is great the less they are pretending to have it. Please stop to pretend to be the best. So you mean to say that actually having written all the ALS code has not in any way given me an

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

2013-06-20 Thread Renk Thorsten
- ALS now works much better with the random trees. I think there's still work to be done with other shaders (presumably the wake shader has still to be ported?) Yes (if that is really a major holdup, I can probably do this within the next weeks if it makes Vivian smile :-) ...). A more

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

2013-06-20 Thread grtuxhangar team
Hum, Given your answer, you have probably some personal memory leak. I have to remind you, about Rembrandt: Was said before. With my Computer NVIDIA GPU Geforce 9600 GT at 1024x800 i never get less than 24 fps With an other computer NVIDIA GPU 560 Ti was demonstrated ( refer to Rembrandt

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

2013-06-20 Thread Renk Thorsten
Referring to my poor experience with these two computers , i conclude , i can accept a decrease of performance, without loosing any FG facility. I'll be far from the single frame per second your are talking about. First of all, there are people who get a single frame per second with Rembrandt

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

2013-06-20 Thread grtuxhangar team
Oh, yes there is also computers which can't run FG 2.00 , i have inherited a computer with nvidia 6200 AGP which run only FG 1.00. But you will say i (we) am (are) not representative of the FG users world only an exception, ... anybody is an exception. I guess the professional you are

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

2013-06-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday 20 June 2013 17:55:40 grtuxhangar team wrote: I guess the professional you are has done statistics about the FG users world, thus you are able to be more precise about those unfortunate users who are getting only the single frame per second, which hardware? which operating systems

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

2013-06-20 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On an Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics Card with Mesa (note that Intel is generally worse than Nvidia and AMD), I have roughly the same frame rates with ALS on and with ALS off; it doesn't seem to make much of a difference in terms of frame rates.

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

2013-06-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Jun 2013, at 17:54, Stefan Seifert n...@detonation.org wrote: With an AMD Radeon HD 5670 using free radeon driver I've never seen performance of more than 15fps with Rembrandt and if I turn shadow details up so they don't look crappy I get about 3-4fps. And with a i3770K and a

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

2013-06-20 Thread grtuxhangar team
I won't say again the performances i got with a GTX 560TI , since given within the recent topic Rembrandt performance, with the self explaining .snapshots. Whatever we need that Benchmark matrix . Those performances could be very different since depending on the scenery parameters, for

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

2013-06-19 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Kleo G. wrote: ALS already has an ON/OFF selection button. Wouldn't it be useful for Rembrandt to also have such a button, thus being able to switch it on or off either without restarting the sim?? It would skip all the inconvenience of restarting the sim for

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

2013-06-19 Thread grtuxhangar team
Pushing in front your supposed to be know how is not an argument , usually the more person' s know how is great the less they are pretending to have it. Please stop to pretend to be the best. Don't tell the FG feature can't be improved with Rembrandt by exposing some similar eye candy you are

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

2013-06-19 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Renk Thorsten wrote: What version number will we give to the new release? Are we ready for a 3.0 or is it 2.12? Looking through my list of goals for the last coding period: I also had a look through the 3.0 backlog article

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

2013-06-19 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 7:07 AM, grtuxhangar team hohora...@gmail.comwrote: Pushing in front your supposed to be know how is not an argument , usually the more person' s know how is great the less they are pretending to have it. Please stop to pretend to be the best. Don't tell the FG

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

2013-06-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:42:33 +0100, Stuart wrote in message CAP3ntytxrt_p061QvA2UZKU2XX48kRDq22R2csdr+8=tl69...@mail.gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Kleo G. wrote: ALS already has an ON/OFF selection button. Wouldn't it be useful for Rembrandt to also have such a button,

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

2013-06-19 Thread Kleo G .
Hey Stuart! I understand now. I guess that is why by trying to set Rembrandt=ON through the Internal properties while the sim is running results in distorted rainbow colors... Thank you for explaining this to me! Hope you guys find a way around this! :) Cheers, Kleo Sent from my Gentoo On

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

2013-06-18 Thread Renk Thorsten
What version number will we give to the new release? Are we ready for a 3.0 or is it 2.12? Looking through my list of goals for the last coding period: * Get a high-quality model shader running under Atmospheric Light Scattering This is now available, working for random buildings and for

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

2013-06-18 Thread Vivian Meazza
Thorsten Sent: 18 June 2013 07:40 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] reminder: entering feature freeze now What version number will we give to the new release? Are we ready for a 3.0 or is it 2.12? Looking through my list of goals for the last coding

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

2013-06-18 Thread James Turner
On 18 Jun 2013, at 09:38, Vivian Meazza vivian.mea...@lineone.net wrote: We still cannot select the Screenshot Directory from the gui. I think that all argues for 2.12. Hmm, that is 'just a bug' which will be fixed during the release cycle, I just keep forgetting about it since there's no

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

2013-06-18 Thread Renk Thorsten
A nice list and it's all worthwhile improvement, but it's all tinkering around the edges of existing stuff. There's no step change which would justify 3.0 IMO. For that we need something major, like new terrain (850) or Rembrandt as the default. *shrugs* This would depend on if you're a

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

2013-06-18 Thread grtuxhangar team
What is the most important ? 1/ To have a working stable Program whose the major options ( ALS, REMBRANDT) remains options since conflicting each other. 2/ To have a working stable Program which include as a standard one of these two options, which would definitively push on the back the

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

2013-06-18 Thread Renk Thorsten
3/ To wait for better development reaching the target to have REMBRANDT and ALS working well all together, and definitively included within FG. (...) The basic content remains the same, some Aircrafts are flying with Rembrandt not with ALS , others are flying with ALS not with Rembrandt

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

2013-06-18 Thread Kleo G .
: thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:26:16 + Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] reminder: entering feature freeze now 3/ To wait for better development reaching the target to have REMBRANDT and ALS working well all together

[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

2013-06-17 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
Once the version has been decided, will the branches be created? Saikrishna Arcot On Mon 17 Jun 2013 01:59:47 PM CDT, Torsten Dreyer wrote: 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