On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:34, Brett Porter wrote: > > I say we entirely separate out the plugins into their > > own JIRA projects and then take a look at what's really in > > the core. > > Not much left! :) > > > I can live with releasing what we have now as 1.0. > > > > Well, I disagree for a few reasons. These are just my opinion though, of > course. > - 1.0 will get more publicity, and it might be the time users who were > bitten by problems such as the leak come back and give it another shot. It'd > be nice for it to work for them this time around :) > - 1.0 will still need to bundle the optional plugins in some way (or maybe > we use the NSIS installer to selectively download them? :) So any major bugs > in them need to be fixed and up to release status. However I agree here - > lets push to get each plugin we release with 1.0 to a stable release. They > can keep going beyond that, but we can at least say "we can use x for 1.0". > It may be the case that this is already there. > - the memory usage improvement is huge, and speed can be further improved > within the current refactoring by more efficient plugin loading. This is > going to be important for anyone generating a multiproject site with lots of > reports (a very common usage). > - I think the people that don't care about polish are using it now anyway, > so the version, as Jason said, is irrelevant. > - On the contrary, if we release it as 1.0, we probably find we need to rush > a 1.1 to fix the same bugs we currently have waiting for 1.0. > > When it comes down to it, the answer is "what's in a name?" :) > > But where we stand is that there's either this reasonable amount of work > waiting for 1.0, or there's nothing. We either release 1.0 now (After a > quick review of JIRA), or commit to getting the fixed up plugin context code > into that release and have two more release candidates. > > One argument in favour of releasing now is that HEAD can open up for new > development such as the recent POM suggestions being made. However, there is > nothing stop that in the current scenario either - it just means everything > targetted at 1.0 including core bugfixes goes onto the branch. > > Thoughts?
I'm not fussed either way. The stuff is going to get fixed when it gets fixed. Maybe you and I will get on a role but most likely not and that branch still needs a lot of TLC. > Cheers, > Brett -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
