Hi All, > After a period of having been extremely busy at work, following a switch > of jobs and moving to a different country, I'm slowly coming back to > life. December is already well on it's way, and it would be great if we > could manage another major release this year.
I realize that Flightgear is an international project, but some of us live in countries in which Christmas is approaching. I'm sure for some here this means plenty of time for coding in the holiday season, but others (like myself) have families, and the combination means that it's really a bad time to get anything done except Christmas preparations with the kids. If I describe my own situation (largely because I happen to know it), I've just started to add the live weather functionality to the local weather package. Right now that's experimental - it's not thoroughly tested, it may produce errors or crap output in some conditions, the menus are not hardened against non-functional combinations of options and so on. Live weather is something I would like to put into a release (it's v1.0 coming up in my internal counting after all), but as it is now, I simply wouldn't, because it's experimental, not stable. I can't simply do things within a two weeks deadline (especially not before Christmas) - I have to have some more advance warning (at least a month or so) of what is coming so that I can adjust my schedule, or it's down to mere luck if I have time or not. I don't know if I am the only one here... So I'd very much prefer a scheme in which a first deadline is set for last new features being added well in advance and then a second deadline two weeks later (or so) for the actual release to allow for bugs to show up and be eliminated. Just my two cents (I have of course never participated in a Flightgear release, but I do know how to get a research group to write a grant application in time together...) Cheers, * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
