I would like to start working agressively towards the next FlightGear
release which will be called v0.9.10 (putting off the v1.0 release for
at least one more cycle.) We have quite a few important features and
aircraft added since the last release so I think it would be good to get
a new release out the door.
I don't have a specific schedule worked out yet, but I think my target
will be the end of March or first week in April. That will give us a
week to panic and discuss and lob heated accusations at each other, :-)
then a week or two to test and bug fix, and then we can do the official
release.
Here are the major issues I see:
1. We need to go through every JSBSim aircraft and make sure it has been
converted to the new JSBSim v2.0 config file format, and make sure the
control surface animations get added back in.
2. We need to aggressively hunt down any random crashes we might run
into. The word on the street is that current cvs is 'buggier' than the
v0.9.9 release. I'm not necessarily seeing that here so I wonder if the
bugs are concentrated in some of the subsystems I don't use much (AI
aircraft?, ATC system?, Carrier ops?, MP?) In addition, the transiennt
problems associated with our change over to JSBSim v2.0 may have also
contributed to this impression, but hopefully the dust is settling on
that one.
3. Any other major issues?
One point I would like to stress. With any release, there are always
people who say we can't possibly finalize the release until feature xyz
is added, or until bug abc is fixed. We should do our best to address
those concerns, but at some point we have to go with what we have.
These sorts of things could force us to never again have a release if we
are required to fully address every concern that anyone brings up.
Thank you all for you help and participation in this project. We have
our warts and insufficiencies, but FlightGear is becoming more and more
well known. The collective capabilities of our project are becoming
quite impressive. Not every big name aerospace company is using FG, but
I get to talk to a lot of people from a lot of interesting companies
(big and small) that are using FlightGear or at least asking questions
about it.
Thanks,
Curt.
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Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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