You could release with the bug, then release an 'r2' when the mm is rewritten?

2011/12/19 Igor Paliychuk <[email protected]>:
> This is definetely not new idea but it could make developing more effective.
>
>
> 2011/12/19 Igor Paliychuk <[email protected]>
>>
>> I have purpose: we should create a plan of features/fixes after release
>> that should be done before the next release and assign every point to some
>> devs. This would make developing more coordinate and avoid in future such
>> cases that we have now(i mean people began to test/investigate mshtml bug
>> only when we began to talk about release and all the rest of time before it
>> was untouched)
>> Sorry for long sentence :)
>>
>>
>> 2011/12/19 Aleksey Bragin <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Yes, that's what I'm appealing to. Though I really wish our OS becomes
>>> mature enough, 0.3.14 is not a release advised for production usage.
>>>
>>> I highly appreciate Olaf's efforts to raise the quality of every release,
>>> though. And whenever possible I agree with his arguments and just sit down
>>> and chase bugs myself if noone else wants to.
>>> It's just that remaining mm code can't be rewritten within a short period
>>> of time. That's why I propose to release with a known bug.
>>>
>>> WBR,
>>> Aleksey Bragin.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19.12.2011 15:08, Adam wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thing is that this is a pre-alpha operating system. The "0.x" basically
>>>> indicates it is not finished. Sure the release should be special but
>>>> strictly speaking it should be done. The new MM can wait (IMO) up until
>>>> 0.3.15 - there's little point worrying about it in the next release.
>>>>
>>>> So long as this isn't a blocker (ie. one can just use 128MB instead of
>>>> 64MB to resolve this) then you may as well release it.
>>>>
>>>> I remember 0.3.11 well. Networking on it was horrible and often I had
>>>> trouble trying to get the cards to work on VBox and QEMU - it was still
>>>> release wasn't it?
>>>>
>>>> If one was to wait until every little bug was fixed before releasing,
>>>> then one should review the purpose of a release. Especially a
>>>> *pre-alpha* release. There should (IMO) be a "Known Issues" for
>>>> situations like this.
>>>>
>>>> As a result I have no objection branching now.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:22:24 +0100
>>>> Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1 to Caemyr
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:15 PM,<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It is NOT a vbox issue. If we release with this bug, it will bite
>>>>>> us back for long. Sometimes, its better to delay than to release a
>>>>>> bugger.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Op 18-12-2011 22:49, Aleksey Bragin schreef:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Try other virtual machines for now, this is the only thing I
>>>>>>>> can advise until it's fixed.
>>>>>>>> VMWare Workstation (Player), Parallels Workstation, they don't
>>>>>>>> exhibit the bug.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 64MB VMware Workstation 8 (64bit, Win7-ultimate x64) guest hangs
>>>>>>> all the same, on MSHTML.DLL. Takes a while though :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It implies:
>>>>>>> - if your machine has low memory you'll run into this issue
>>>>>>> - if your machine has enough memory you might run into this issue,
>>>>>>> depending on the machine/emulator/virtualiser.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As p1 runs with 32MB and p3 runs with 40MB it's a shame to see p2
>>>>>>> require about double this memory (or up to 512MB in some cases).
>>>>>>> On the other hand, it allows ROS to actually run apps in p3
>>>>>>> instead of only looking at a nice system tray and desktop picture.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best of luck releasing 0.3.14, developers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> With best regards
>>>>>> Caemyr
>>>>>>
>>>
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