Hi Marc-Andre, if I take a look at the list the blocker #189 "X11 client freezes indefinitely if connection is lost" sounds like a severe issue for productivity usage.
Best regards, gotsiboon. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Marc-André Moreau <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello FreeRDP community, > > We've been working hard lately to stabilize FreeRDP in preparation for the > 1.0 stable release. We're currently in beta5, but I do not think we can > release betas forever like this. Important regressions were left to be > fixed until today, but now I feel that we have something good enough to be > released. The last two major issues which I really wanted to have fixed > were the sporadic bitmap cache faults and the VRDP connectivity issue, both > of which were fixed this week. > > I know that there are still some bugs with red labels on the bug tracker, > but I think we now have something good enough for most people. If there is > something that I've learned spending months bug fixing stuff is that > stability really is something valuable :) For this reason I would like to > propose the following branching strategy, quite similar to the > "maintenance" branch which we once had: > > For each stable release, we should create a new branch. This means that > when releasing 1.0 stable, we would create a "1.0" branch. The current > master will then become the future "1.1" branch, and will get all the new > features and bug fixes. The 1.0 branch would not get the new features, but > only bug fixes, such that can keep it stable and make maintenance releases, > such as "1.0.1". > > When it will be time to make the 1.1 stable release, we will create a "1.1" > branch as well, and master will become the future "1.2" branch. At this > point we would maintain the 1.1 branch for maintenance releases but stop > maintaining the previous stable release (unless we want to start doing > maintenance releases for multiple past stable releases, which is a lot of > work). > > I think the maintenance releases will lead to rock solid versions of > FreeRDP which should satisfy a lot of people looking for production-ready > code. The development releases will keep satisfying those of us looking for > the latest and coolest features :) > > Would anybody have strong objections to a 1.0 stable release at the > beginning of this week? If there are still some bugs which prevent you from > using the soon-to-be 1.0 stable release, they should be addressed in the > 1.0.1 maintenance release. We won't suddenly stop fixing bugs just because > we have a stable release if this is your concern. > > Comments are welcome, > > Best regards, > - Marc-Andre > > P.S.: I desperately need help with Remmina development, if you'd like to > help me out then contact me, thanks! The deadline for inclusion in Ubuntu > 12.04 is getting closer and I'd need to get Remmina updated for 1.0, but > I'm truly overworked. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA(R) Conference 2012 > Mar 27 - Feb 2 > Save $400 by Jan. 27 > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Freerdp-devel mailing list > Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel -- No §112! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
