Summary ------- The new target release date ofr Jmol 10.1 is Fri 14 April 2006.
Nico will be making the release. Detail ------ I am posting a new target release date of Fri 14 April 2006 for Jmol 10.1. This will allow the code to stabilize and will give us more time to find and fix bugs. I think we should consider the code 'feature frozen', so no new features should be added at this point. Regarding bugs ... if we find bugs then we should fix them. But use discretion and try to make isolated changes that address the one problem you are trying to fix. This is a good time for testing, updating web pages, updating documentation, etc. I have done nothing to the Jmol web site, and there is probably a lot of 'dead wood' that needs to be cut out. I suggest that we think about moving as much as we can to the wiki. Included under the heading of 'documentation' is Javadoc comments in the source code. Now may be a good time for people to learn how to write Javadoc comments in the source code. If you are familiar with one of the Readers, then that would be a good place to add some Javadoc comments and see how it gets generated. There are ant targets for generating the javadoc. We do not have a Public Relations/Marketing machine to gear up, so we should make some feeble attempt to do something. At a minimum, we need to compile our 'new enhancments' list of things that have been added in the 10.1 release. I suggest that we set up a Wiki page for 10.1 enhancements, with links to Bob's demo page (http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/jmol/test/10.1/new.htm) and to other more detailed pages within the Wiki. Egon has done the freshmeat open-source publicity for us in the past and I trust he will do it again. If you have any pity phrases to describe the wonders of Jmol I am sure he would like to receive a message. Regarding my personal involvement in this process ... Unfortunately, I will be travelling for the next two weeks. I will have occasional email access, but will not be able to do any development. I have asked Nico to manage the releases and he is comfortable doing it. He plans to do a few 'release candidate' prereleases this week and perhaps early next week, followed by the official 10.1 release on Fri 14 Apr 2006. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
