I'm absolutely agree with Gotsi Boon! I know people who prefer Freerdp to Rdesktop mainly because of this — Freerdp didn't freeze in case of network faults. I think it's very important in everyday usage.
2012/1/14 Gotsi Boon <gotsi.b...@gmail.com>: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
