On Sunday 11 November 2007, Torsten Rahn wrote: > of course, our show stoppers themselves are somewhat funny (as in "they > smell funny ... ") since last time i looked we did no have anything about > the keyboard shortcuts control panel not working at all (though this has > had the side effect of getting me used to the kde defaults again ;) while > we do have some pretty minor showstoppers.
Well, last time I checked the default style didn't support QToolBox yet. This basically rendered Marble unusable as people are not able to make use of the interface. > i'm dangerously close to having resizable and movable panels. they'll be > done this week. multiple panels are there, xrandr works, xinerama works. > taskbar and systray both need bugfixes; i wont get to working on those > until next week, however. (i figure i only need 2 days to get the panel > stuff done, which means it'll take a week ;). So do I understand it correctly that you think that Plasma will have sorted out all remaining issues that are left for an RC1 only until next wednesday? Sounds good to me. > > involved with the last few showstoppers when those showstoppers will be > > fixed. Based on that we should decide how to proceed. I remember that > > this was done for earlier releases. It helped to make people commit > > themselves to get the release out of the door soon while at the same time > > making sure that we'd adhere to our quality standards. > this makes more sense to me: a ballance between "well, let's just slip the > date without putting any pressure on our work schedule" and "let's stick to > the schedule regardless of what we've accomplished". Balance is always good. But it needs to be based on criteria. The only balance I see is that we go through the showstopper list and see whether there are any "made-up" showstoppers left that could easily be removed by disabling related functionality. E.g. for the keyboard shortcuts e.g. I could easily imagine that we disable the related dialog completely (so no luxury of changing shortcuts, bad luck). On the other hand the QToolBox issue I mentioned is certainly something that is a showstopper for sure that can't get removed. > we should really strive to make a december release if at all possible (for > so many reasons which we've gone over so many times now), and that may well > mean a big final push. I'd love to see a release being tagged right before christmas. But I'd hate to receive a release from Santa where you get the feel that the QA Santa dwarves were on Christmas holidays already concerning the most basic functionality. :-) -- Torsten Rahn Tel.: 0 21 61 - 46 43 - 192 credativ GmbH, HRB Mönchengladbach 12080 Hohenzollernstr. 133, 41061 Mönchengladbach Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
