Just a quick reminder about the 0.7.9 release. Friday (8 Feb 02) is the cutoff for submitting new features for the 0.7.9 release.
Starting Saturday (9 Feb 02) through next Friday (15 Feb 02) will be a time for bug fixes only. I'm hoping to release 0.7.9 on Saturday (16 Feb 02). In the next week, hopefully we can get as many people as possible to download, compile, and test so we can eliminate as many stupid glitches and platform specific bugs as possible. Please be aware that there isn't some computer god of all platforms and compilers that automatically does this for us. This project is for, by, and of volunteers who are doing this in their spare time, so we have no paid testers. If you want flightgear to work on your platform, you need to be in there during this process trying out the pre-release releases and making sure they work for you. If you don't participate now, and 0.7.9 doesn't work for you, then you have only yourself to blame. (Disclaimer: there are a few poeple experiencing problems where it's not clear if it is the system or the application, and the primary developers are unable to reproduce them. I don't mean to imply that these sorts of problems are always the fault of the end user, and there may not be any easy fix for these sorts of things for the 0.7.9 release.) (Next disclaimer: of course bug reports are helpful and useful and we appreciate all of those that we get. However, submitting a bug report *and* a patch to fix the problem is much preferrable. :-) Again, we are all volunteers so there's no one paid to scan the incoming bug reports and crank out fixes. We all do the best we can with our limited free time, but be aware that simply reporting a problem isn't necessarily a guarantee it will be fixed for 0.7.9. Reporting a problem and submitting a fix though is pretty safe bet.) :-) Thanks to everyone who is contributing to 0.7.9! Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
