Hi, Let me request to schedule a release 1.0 for this June. Here we need a reliably working version with at least basic functionality.
Current revision of OpenXPKI is unstable, sometime irreproducible. It happens that new heavy errors are introduced at a pace much faster than they could be traced down. (Just to mention, a utf8 story during last months: multi-level errors which are very hard to investigate are still there.) Existing clever tests seem not be run *before* commits. New tests for new code are not covering all functionality. Looks like "best perl practices" talked about at the last meeting in Munich is sadly neglected. Do you mind if I (or somebody else?) split svn branches: 1) one to be a development branch, 2) other meant to turn into stable release during this May and June? Do you mind if we negotiate a policy about commits into stable branch? I suggest something like: - no new functionality is allowed to be added to the stable branch unless absolutely necessary *and* unless accepted by the mail list. Not even if Volkswagen produces a new version of its auto, which could be supported by OpenXPKI. - each functionality which is not basic but works unreliably, and with no clearly seen ways to fix, should be removed from the stable branch after negotiating at the mail list. - productivity enhancement is allowed after negotiating at the mail list. - (heavily tested locally) bugfixes are welcome. - contributions to docs and web zone are welcome. - translations of all tags to at least English are welcome. - adding of new tests at every suitable location is welcome. Perhaps you have other plans or more clever ideas about how to pave a road to release? Writing this message because I am sure that a change of some organizational issues could be a benefit for the OpenXPKI project. All the best, Sergei ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ OpenXPKI-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openxpki-devel
