On Tue, 01 May 2001, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 08:56 30.04.01 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
>>On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Claus Sørensen wrote:
>>
>>> What is the roadmap for the next version?
>>>
> Let's see if all the developers/users can agree on this ?
> Dia 0.87 should:
>
> - work on all major platforms, (Does this include Gnome 1.4;
> anyone using Gnome 1.4 out there ?)
> - make available all the bugfixes since the last official
> version (Dia 0.86 has had some serious problems with some
> menu actions, see: Objects/Align/Equal Distance thread.
> Are there any *users* out there ?)
Yes, I use it for a variety of stuff (from DTP-like setup through
scenarios and flowcharts for games to actual diagrams for articles).
> - contain less bugs/more features than the previous release
I believe we do. We haven't removed any features that I know of, and I put
in the feature that it shows the object name in the properties dialog:)
> - silence complaining about bugs, which got fixed month ago
> - be localized properly ?
That's a toughie -- translating all the sheets require knowledge not only
of the language, but of the specific terms. I've been bugging various LUGs
to get translators, but no luck yet.
>>> Is there a feature freeze?
>>>
> Interesting question. Lars, what do you think about this one ?
Yes, I've had the feeling we've had feature freeze for a while. I even
think it was mentioned on the list once.
>>> Couldn't you release more often so more of us
>>> can benefit for the work you have been doing
>>> since last release.
>>
> IHMO the key question here is: Is the benefit on both sides ?
> Doing an official release does require some extra work which
> almost never falls into the fun category. Part of this work
> can be done by the users, who are willing to build from cvs.
Doing an official release should also relieve us from a) having to point
users at CVS for bugs that got fixed months ago, and thus b) having to help
non-developers with getting the CVS version to compile.
There will be a new version soon, even if we have to go to Australia
ourselves and hunt down James:)
-Lars
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