Hi all, cutting the nonsense and being objective what needs to be done to release a stable 1.4.0?
Is it reasonable to have a HEAD that has problems while Alfredo is fixing the bugs in the other branch? Looking in bugzilla for bugs related with 1.4.0, blocker, critical, major and normal I see 22. Is this up to date? What needs to be done to clean this? What are the subjects that other developers are working and would like to have fixed before 1.4.0 release? Here is my list: lyx2lyx - improve the resilence of lyx2lyx to bad input, that means basically catching all the python exceptions if not using a development version. The code for this is almost on place. Half an hour should be enough to fix this. linuxdoc - replace all the code for paragraphs generation by the one used by docbook, the code there is sufficiently general and is well tested to make this replacement. It is almost a mater of copy and paste, a better factorization can be done in 1.5. docbook - implement the suggestions of Chris, most of them are special cases for insets, so should not impact the core. PS: Before some says that this was discussed before, this days my memory qualifies as golden fish, so forgive and let us update the discussion. One good example that I like is kde: http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.4-features.html The question is clearly to define what needs to be fixed, and attribute priorities to bugs, what is blocker and what can wait for 1.4.1. PS: I hope this is a constructive message towards a stable 1.4 release before this year Christmas. :-) -- Jos� Ab�lio
