Hi all, unfortunately there were no comments about my mail, beside the one from Miles to not forget about the missing xmlrpc of addressbook.
I phoned with Lars yesterday and we agreed to exceptionally include the mentioned commits, plus some patches I have received and postponed during my holiday. I agreed to test and quickly fix bugs arising from these commits - thought I dont expect much, as the commits are in trunk for some time and used on my companies installation. On the contrary some of the commits fixes and improves the column-selection feature in some apps. I know it's not optimal, but the only other alternative for me would be to maintain an other release branch, which would be a real waste of our limited resources. Again sorry, I will try to make sure that kind of problem does not happen again ... I still think we should remove the 1.4 branch completely. Of cause with a feature freeze in trunk. The existence of a release branch usually encourager more the start of new developments then the fixing of the existing bugs. Almost all other projects create release branches after the first or second RC and not earlier. Anyway we never had a release branch, without already changing the version-numbers. The point with the branch is not that important to me, I only think it would speed up the release ... Ralf Ralf Becker schrieb: > Hi Lars, > > first of all I want to apologies for the commits - I simply did not get > the message of the feature freeze. I looked at my (private) mail and the > website, but I didn't see any notice about a feature freeze. I'm sorry > but I was not able to follow the lists, I would have taken simply to > much time ... > > Anyway I'm back and happy to work again on eGroupWare and specially the > next release from Monday next week on. I might again not be able to > answer questions on the lists 'til Monday, as I'm working on a climbing > competition (away from home) 'til then. > > Beside the feature freeze I want to ask for the inclusion for the last > commits, as they are: > > 1. quite a big usability improvement (you can now switch columns in > every list (of eTemplate apps) on and off via a simple checkbox. That > allows to show a lot information (columns) not necessarily useful for > everyone, but required by some people / usage cases. There's a > programmatic default and admin can also specify a default. That's a long > wanted and talked about (new) feature. > The changes in the code are not big and work quite well. The problems > after the first commit were caused by the not included app.css file by > the home page, which is now fixed. > > 2. distribution lists for the addressbook are a long wanted feature and > have even been on the roadmap for 1.4 - thought I had to postpone them > because of to little time. > > 3. these feature also include some bugfixes I came along while working > on the new code. > > I ask to include these fixes (base the 1.4 branch on the up to date > trunk), and promises to not commit and new features, without further > discussion on the lists to the 1.4 branch. > > If noone plans / works on new features at the moment, I would even > suggest to remove the 1.4 branch again, as to early release branches are > delaying a release more then they help creating it. > > I will actively work on getting out the 1.4 release, before starting any > new development! > > Again I'm sorry for ignoring the feature freeze and I'm happy to be back > working on eGW next week :-) > > Ralf > > PS.: I will probably not be able to read the developer list, before next > week. Everything on the users list posted in the last 3 month, I will > simply ignore, as I dont have the time to read and answer it. > > Lars Kneschke schrieb: >> Hello! >> >> I was ill the last week, mostly recovering now. I still feel sick. After >> read my emails i got very frustrated. >> >> I had spent very much time, getting 1.4 stable. One week ago i announced >> a feature freeze, to get 1.4 really stable in a reasonable timeframe. >> One day after the feature freeze got announced, Ralf commited something >> new. I sent him a SMS to is mobile phone(he is not in germany >> currently), but i did not receive any response. >> >> While cleaning up my emails from the last week, i discovered that yet >> more new features got commited. And we also got the first report, that >> something is broken now, what was working before. >> >> If we continue to work this way, we will never ever get 1.4 out of the >> door. >> >> I'm very frustrated now!!! I'm doing the very,very boring task of trying >> to create a stable release, which can be called stable. And it is very >> frustrating when my work get dumped in the trashcan. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Lars Kneschke >> Metaways Infosystems GmbH >> Pickhuben 2-4, D-20457 Hamburg >> >> eGroupWare Training & Support ==> http://www.egroupware-support.net >> >> E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Web: http://www.metaways.de >> Tel: +49 (0)40 317031-21 >> Fax: +49 (0)40 317031-81 >> Mobile: +49 (0)175 9304324 >> >> Metaways Infosystems GmbH - Sitz: D-22967 Tremsbüttel >> Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Ahrensburg HRB 4508 >> Geschäftsführung: Hermann Thaele, Lüder-H.Thaele >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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