Ok, agreed, I started to look at some of the reported patches, however the OLE patches are quite large, at least I cannot verify what side-effects they might have on other parts of the code with my still limited knowledge of some parts of the code...
Dominik. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > OLE Embedding looks like a hot patch to check out. It is certainly very > useful. > > Regards, > Dave > > On Sep 22, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Dominik Stadler wrote: > >> what are the next steps on POI? Do we stabilize a bit more and release > 3.10 before doing more risky stuff? Or do some more bugfixes before > starting the 3.10 release process again? > > > > Given we've had 2 betas so far, it would probably confuse users if we > started doing major and/or breaking changes before 3.10 final is out. > Afterwards we're fine to, compatibility rules withstanding! Hopefully that > won't be that long, if you want to make some big changes it's not too long > to hold off... > > > > What we do have is quite a lot of user contributed patches/fixes that > haven't been applied. If we're not very good at reviewing/applying them, > then it has two bad effects. Firstly, we're less likely to get more > contributions in future if we're not seen to appreciate them. Secondly, > people who have their patches ignored tend not to stick about, so we loose > out on potential new committers going forward. Neither good! > > > > Everyone here is a volunteer, so no-one can demand anyone else do > anything! But, if I did have more spare time than I currently seem to, I'd > personally be focusing on trying to review + apply as many recent user > contributed fixes/enhancements as possible. > > > > Either way, we probably want to set a rough deadline on the next > release. A few days before, we can do a straw poll on beta 3 vs final. If > Tim decides it's leaning towards another beta, then he can pretty much roll > it then. If final is the consensus, then probably best allow a week or so > extra for last minute fixes / tweaks, then roll 3.10 final! > > > > In the mean time, if anyone wants to play with some major changes, best > bet is to take a branch in SVN to work on, then merge it back to trunk once > 3.10 is out. > > > > Nick > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
