I was talking to Patrick more at lunch about his yesterday and he sounds very interested in helping out to push the release forward. I will let him talk to specifics, but he did a lot of the behind the scenes work of triaging bugs, making task lists, and branch management for the VR Juggler project so I know he could be very helpful with this sort of thing on OpenSG if people are interested.
-Allen On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Allen Bierbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Gerrit Voss <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Allen,, >> >> sorry for the delay I was slightly distracted by other things. >> >> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:00 -0600, Allen Bierbaum wrote: >>> Hello all: >>> >>> I am writing to ask what the roadmap to 2.0 release looks like. >>> >>> We create a stable branch of OpenSG in June of 2007 to use temporarily >>> while OpenSG 2.0 was ironed out. This branch has worked *very* well >>> for us which I think speaks volumes to the OpenSG 2.0 code. >>> Unfortunately, we planned to use this for 3-4 months, but have been >>> using it for much longer. We would like to get back to using the head >>> since it has a number of performance improvements and 1.5 years of >>> development, but I must make sure we can count on a stable >>> release/branch for code that we deploy. We can help out with pushing >>> 2.0 out the door, but I don't know what the current plan is. >>> >>> For example: >>> >>> - How close are we to 2.0? >> >> actually I'm already in the middle of what I thought would go into >> 2.1, e.g. I'm about to restructure the materials, the way materials >> are stored, and chunks so that they can change according to the >> requirements/properties of the current segment of the render traversal. > > That sounds promising. If you are working on 2.1 then 2.0 is probably > ready for a stable release branch. :) > >>> - What features/capabilities are left to implement? >> >> The biggest issue I see is documentation. I can walk through 1.x >> and open tickets for missing pieces. >> >>> - What will the release process look like (RC's, betas, etc)? >> >> I left that one a little bit to Dirk ;-) (yes, I know it's not nice ;-)) >> I'm fine to go into release mode and walk thought the track tickets. As >> we have a tutorial at IEEE VR coming up we have to look into this >> anyway, so hopefully we at least a beta out of it ;-) > > My suggestion would be that we create a 2.0 release branch targetting > an IEEE VR release. If that existing, I think we could move our > development over to it and help out with stress testing the system. > Then everyone could work through the ticket backlog and make sure > fixes, documentation etc are ready. That said, I would not let > documentation be the hold up. I know we need it, but we all need > working code even more. > > We have some engineers here that would be willing to contribute (and > if needed help coordinate) this process. Just let me know what you > need. > >> I'm not sure how much would we have to merge back from your branch, >> IIRC Carsten looked into a some time ago. > > I was talking to Aron and Patrick about this yesterday. Once we know > we are going to switch branches, we can go through and merge anything > we think is needed. We will make the commits self-contained though so > everyone can review them and we can all back out individual pieces if > anything is objectionable. > > -Allen > >> >> >> Other opinions ?? >> >> >> kind regards, >> gerrit >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA >> -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise >> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation >> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensg-core mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-core >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Opensg-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-core
