On Tuesday 29 January 2002 05:08 pm, you wrote:
> I really, really, really want to roll out the FlightGear-0.7.9 release
> soon.  I haven't posted an official release time table yet, but I will
> do that in this message.
>
>   John Check writes:
>   > For sure. Just make sure you guys don't commit any major breakage
>   > to CVS this week ;)
>
>   LWCE/New York is this week and as per John's request, perhaps it
>   would be a good idea to go slow on a lot of major CVS changes to
>   keep from complicating their lives.  However, John, no matter what
>   we do, it would be wise to get the latest version running before the
>   show starts and just stick with it, warts and all.  Tracking cvs and
>   rebuilding the binary on the booth demo machines in the middle of
>   the show is just asking for trouble, wierd problems, and "uh ... it
>   just was working" or "I don't know why it just did that" type
>   moments.  Get a recent version working, and then just stick with it.
>

Right. I was just busting you guys chops.
I do notice the c310 JSBsim is a little shaky sometimes. Mainly 2 things

1)  Going Hypersonic - once in a while she accelerates to muti mach
speeds and gets sucked into NAN land
2) Reset crashes X sometimes. Usually after smacking into something.

I'll take notes and see if I can come up with conditions to reproduce
either situation.

> So here is my proposed schedule:
>
> Now - Feb 8 (this week and next) is the last chance to submit new
>   features for the 0.7.9 version.  Preferably I'd see more bug fixes
>   than features in this time.
>
> Feb 9 - Feb 15: Everyone should be building from cvs and the trial
>   tarballs and reporting any bugs, build problems and platform
>   incompatibilies.  Try it out on your platform and compiler and send
>   in bug reports sooner rather than later.  If you don't, and 0.7.9
>   has problems on your platform, don't come complaining to me
>   afterwards. :-)
>
> Feb 16: Official 0.7.9 release day.
>
> Does this schedule sound reasonable?
>
> My time is very limited these days, but I will do my best to stick to
> this timeline.  If everyone agrees, I will go ahead and cast it in
> stone.
>
> I will do everything I can to look at and apply everyone's patch
> submissions in time.  Also be aware that David Megginson has cvs write
> access so you can send reasonable stuff to him as well.  Be aware that
> neither of us blindly commit patch submissions and we evaluate your
> submission to make sure it fits in the overall scheme of the project.
> We try to fix things as much as possible if not, and only reject
> patches as a last resort.  This can be a lot of work depending if the
> patch submitters send in something that is whipped together quickly,
> not thought through very well, or an 'ugly' hack.  And we really
> cringe if we see the "I didn't understand what this code over here did
> so I removed it" type patches.
>
> Regards,
>
> Curt.

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