On Nov 4, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote:
> John, > > Thanks for pushing the release. It is another step closer to 2.6, with > additional bugfixes and polish. > > There are a few things in the release announcement that are not > completely accurate (any more): > > - The settings migration tool will only run once as of 2.5.7. It is no > longer necessary to move the .gnucash directory out of the way. > > - Not all preferences will be migrated. This still stands. However the > settings that are not migrated now will never be. I don't consider > window positions and sizes, sort orders and the like to be "preferences" > but state information. This is not migrated, but it will be stored > automatically the next time you run gnucash (albeit the defaults, not > what was stored as "preferences" before 2.5.6). The only piece still > missing is sort order and filters for the register pages. In any case, > the warning as it is written now is no longer correct. > > - Fix for Python site-packages not found when not installed to default > location. This is not implemented yet. Mike Evans applied to patches in > an effort to fix this, but removed them again later on because the > patches needed work. > > - Lastly: the announcement mentions "string freeze isn't planned until > the 2.5.7 release in early September." I suspect this version number is > automatically updated by a find and replace. In any case 2.5.7 is > released early November. The more important question is though: does > this stand ? Are we ready for string freeze ? If so, I think we'd better > announce that formally as well. > Geert, Thanks for the corrections. I’ve pushed a corrected News item for the website. As for string freeze, if we’re going to ship 2.6 in December I think we should declare both string and feature freeze now: Bug fixes only until we branch 2.6 sometime around March. I replaced the string freeze line in the announcement with saying that it’s imminent, and I can add another news item announcing the freeze when you agree. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
