Hi Robert,

Unfortunately it seems that latest commits have broken the build in
Android. It compiles but it doesn't initialize the viewer. Let me dive in,
a couple of weeks ago it was running.


2013/7/1 Robert Osfield <[email protected]>

> 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.
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