Hi All, I'll be working part time this Monday and Tuesday, and on Wednesday will be heading off for a two week family holiday. My work plan for the next two days merge submissions and to get another 3.1.9 dev release out. My focus will be trying to keep the code base nice and stable as I have little time to go running about fixing breakages introduces by submissions.
Today I really need members of the community to pitch in and test svn/trunk to make sure it builds and works well without your applications, if you have bugs or build problems report them right away, and if you don't report success as well so we know that we are converging to a decent dev release. After my return from holiday my focus will be merging pending submissions and then making a series of release candidates with the aim for making OSG-3.2 at the end of July. I was originally thinking we'd have 3.2 in time for Siggraph but just checked the dates and it's early and no longer in the first week of August, so this kinda stuffs up releasing in time for Siggraph, we might be able to do a release candidate though. One thing I'm a bit concerned about with this release cycle is just how quiet the mailing list/forum is. Normally the wind up to a stable release the list is pretty active and I can have reasonable confidence that the OSG is being shaken down by a good range of users across the full spectrum of platforms. We now have more platforms to support but not the activity to go with it.. This makes me concerned that 3.2 will go up without the testing of previous stable releases. One of the problems with activity might be the lack forum moderators, we've made a number of calls for moderators in the past year but I don't know the current status. If people can't use the forum because of lack of moderators then we need keep asking for moderators OR simply stop promoting the forum from the website and point people towards the mailing list as this requires very little public intervention and management - it's a low cost way of us communicating, it's ticked along for over a decade with few problems - I know because if it did cause problems I'd be shouting about it as I maintain it. I don't use or contribute to maintenance of the forum and don't have any wish to more to my workload, so If you feel that forum adds real value but haven't step forward to help maintain it then do so now please :-) Cheers, Robert. On 21 June 2013 16:40, Robert Osfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have completed all the key bits of work that I have wanted to > complete for the OSG-3.2 stable release, but there are still a few > loose ends such as clearing submissions backlog and some following on > work releated to the cleanup of osg::Geometry. > > While I have done a little bit of client work in the last month the > majority of my time has been focused on work moving us towards > OSG-3.2, my window of opportunity for dedicating so much time to pure > open source work is limited though, I have a two week family holiday > booked for the first half of July, and will likely be doing some > client work end of July, then in August will be diving head long back > into client work - much of this will be open source work, but it'll > new feature development rather than support/release work. > > This gives me a short window to get 3.2 out the door, next week I'm > around, then last two weeks of July are when I'll try and keep free of > other commitments so I can tackle all that is required to put 3.2 to > bed. I can't make a stable release without the community though, > testing across all the platforms we support, and against real > applications is what we'll require to make sure OSG-3.2 is as stable > and efficient as the community deserve. > > So please help out, lets make 3.2 our best release to date. If you > can help with testing on particular platforms please step forward, the > more niche the platform the more important you'll be to making sure > that your platform of choice is properly supported. I'll be doing all > my work on Kubuntu 13.04 with NVidia hardware so will be able to cover > this platform, but the dozens of other combinations we support I'll > need the community to pitch in. > > If we can I'd like to have 3.2 by the end of July, in time for > Siggraph, and in time for me to relax before I run 43 miles along the > northern half of the West Highland Way on the 3rd of August ;-) > > In a perfect world I'd tag 3.2 for the end of next week, but > realistically this is unlikely to result in a stable release that has > been tested well enough! > > Thanks in advance for you help, > Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
