Hi, for our developer meeting today I want to propose that we discuss quickly releasing 0.8 beta, or at a minimum a fully packaged alpha release. I propose this for 2.5 reasons:
1. The issues that people are reporting are mostly installation and platform issues due to problems installing from git source. We should make a full release package (i.e. for Windows, precompiled binaries and a real Windows installer) to eliminate these installation problems and get some real feedback on Pygr itself (rather than the difficulties of compiling and installing on Windows). 2. what we need right now is user testing, a lot more than we are getting now from the occasional individual who downloads the bleeding edge source from git. Although we tagged a v0.8.0.alpha1 in git, that means nothing to normal users. reason 2.5: in the absence of an actual package release, I find that we are continuing to add features, contrary to the release plan. The problem is that the only audience using 0.8 now (in its un-packaged, un-released form) is git-savvy developers -- and we as a group tend to be interested in new features. I think the only way to stop this feature-creep is to release a package to normal users. As I see it, the main prerequisite for releasing a beta is to finish the docs. This is really important, because the current state of the docs is obsolete -- a lot of the material is from 0.7 and must be updated for 0.8. It should be possible to finish this in a week. Let's discuss timing; whether to call this package release an alpha or beta; and details of how to package and release this. -- Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pygr-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to pygr-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pygr-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pygr-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
