I think its a great tone Stefan :D I think that even failing to accomplish the goals of such an effort would produce much benefit for the project.
Sign me up :) *sharpens mantis pencils* On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>wrote: > Again, this would be entirely by agreement - anybody not wishing to do bug > fixing can do whatever they like, but I do think even core devs get a kick > out of bugfixing now and then, and adding stuff like those pesky last lsl > commands. > > Regarding the mantis, there are several things that can be done; and what I > was _really_ thinking was that "clearing" would mean "getting organized" > > If we can rally users and testers to help with the mantis, there are a > number of things that can be done; > 1) De-duplicate > 2) Place mantis is "feature" vs "bug" - I did say "feature freeze" and this > is roughly what I meant - the feature mantises would linger, but would not > be part of this endeavour > 3) Off major feature bugs onto the feature voting site > 4) Re-reproduce and close of non-reproducible > 5) Place major issues (that would require major restructuring) in a "post > 0.7.0" category > > This way, we could "clear" mantis, as in getting to a point where > all issues with the current feature set is fixed or closed. > > Again, only striving to set a tone. > > Best regards, > Stefan Andersson > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:34:36 -0700 > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] 0.7 Release Discussion > > I can agree with that, if everyone else agrees i have no problem with it, I > would just hate for anyone to think that we are locking things up and they > wont have our support. And mostly i was more concerned with trying to clear > mantis, that seams a bit unrealistic, as a good portion of fixing the mantis > probably rely on us instituting many feature requests. It kind of goes > against the whole premise of freezing up feature requests. > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Stefan Andersson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > Wise from experience, I would never propose anything as preposterous as to > tell any core dev to do anything. > > But if a substantial part of core devs and the patching community think > it's a good idea and can be swayed to rally for it, I think we can see some > really extraordinary measures that would make us all look pretty god damn > good. > > And hell, I stated it would be ambitious. Aim for the stars, hit the > treetops, you know. > > Best regards, > Stefan Andersson > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:24:51 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] 0.7 Release Discussion > > > Have you even looked at mantis??? there are 728 open tickets, chances are > if we clear mantis, we will have OpenSimulator 1.0.. I personally don't see > this as feasible, this is to me looks like us trying to control what all the > developers are doing, and I have to -1 this idea as it would probably make > most devs just stop working. > > Neb > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Stefan Andersson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I do believe we're all feeling the advent of 0.7 - a milestone in any open > source project. > > Here's a crazy idea for you; how about we agree to freeze feature set and > major architecture as of now, and concentrate on only: > > * Finalizing the backend restructuring > * Clear mantis (hell, let's CLEAR mantis! how's that for ambitious?) > * Write unit tests > > until the cows come home, and tag the cow homecoming rev as 0.7? Or, say, > 1st of aug happens, and we'll tag 0.6.7 then instead. ;) > > I believe this kind of solidified 0.7 would give us all a breather, help us > recoup, and then we can all go back to fiddling with our various dev > projects again. > > What you say? > > Best regards, > Stefan Andersson > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > > -- > Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > > -- > Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > -- =================================== http://osgrid.org http://del.icio.us/SPQR http://twitter.com/jstallings2 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/770/a49
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