On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Marc Jansen <jan...@terrestris.de> wrote:
> Hi all,


Hi Marc


>
> I personally feel that GeoExt2 is basically ready for prime time. We used it
> successfully in some fairtly big applications and only found minor
> bugs/annoyments we already fixed in the codebase. There is still at least
> one fixed bug I am going to integrate into the master-branch soon.
>
> Nevertheless, I suggest to start the release process for the version 2 of
> GeoExt.
>
> Do you share that opinion?


Yes. I was thinking about an alpha release, or 0.1.


>
> I think that there is still a lot of work, though:
>
> We should double check all classes and examples with regard to
>
> API compatibility with v. 1
> documentation
> tests
> and some sort of coding style
>
> Where will we be hosting the API docs? Are we going to change geoext.org? Or
> shall we simply stick with gh-pages? Are we going to integrate runnable
> examples inside of the documentation?


For an alpha release I'd go with gh-pages for the API docs. We could
also use gh-pages for hosting the examples and the test runner.


> We also need some prose docs / tutorials
> about migrating existing application
> building a single-file application
> getting the best out of MVC
> API-changes (If we have any)
>
> What is the release procedure? Are the steps outlined here
> (http://trac.geoext.org/wiki/Release/Procedure) still relevant?


With the GeoExt project now using GitHub this procedure should be updated.

>
> I suggest starting with an early beta version in the next few days, so that
> we can make people aware of GeoExt2 and hopefully get feedback about the
> library.


I do think we should start with that.


>
> In case you agree with the starting of the release process, we also need to
> decide who will be the release manager?


Go for it :) I'll help as much as I can.


>
> What other points / aspects did I miss?
>
> Please tell me your opinions and about the next steps needed to get to
> GeoExt 2.0-beta.

+1



Thanks a lot Marc!



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