Quick update on where we are with respect to starting the 4.5 release cycle...
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 06:16:32AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > Location management > =================== I think we are really close. It's not perfect, it has bugs, needs a ton of testing and some things fixed before a final release... but this is almost ready for Beta 1. If there are any show stoppers here, please file bugs / let us know. > Cloud storage > ============= Merge has been implemented by the master of creating crappy code and subtle bugs that will delete all your data. Which means we are ready for Beta 1. I would mention that this needs more testing but I've said that so many times I'll just give up. A few people clearly are playing with it, but the number is way too small. 21 people have tried this at all, 9 have used it in the past four days. > Undo/redo > ========= > > Undo/redo is there for a hand full of operations. That's nice but are we > OK with this? And can the mixing of things that get added to the undo > stack and operations that don't get added to the undo stack cause > disaster? > > I think this mainly needs testing. Lots of testing. This is a chance for > all of you people on this mailing list who aren't developers but who want > to help! What would be great is simply a collection of emails "this has > been tested and works / here is how I can make this break". Any volunteers > who would like to take ownership here? You don't have to fix the bugs, > just document what works and where things might fail. Nothing has happened on this. I don't know if this has been well tested and is perfect, or if no one ever uses it and it's a complete disaster. I guess we can just have our users find out. > Printing > ======== This is ready for Beta 1 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF OS X where I believe this is still completely broken. > VPM-B > ===== > > VPM-B - at least for the planner I understand that we are getting closer. > Ignoring the fact that so far we aren't matching known profiles :-/ > > Robert / Jan - do you have a TODO list for what is needed? I'm not quite sure. I think it's close. It needs a bigger disclaimer that says "WE REALLY MEAN IT, DON'T DIVE WITH THESE TABLES" > Bluetooth support > ================= > > BT support is looking fairly good on Linux and making progress on Windows, > I think, but I'm sure there are tons of small issues lurking here and > there. Has anyone gotten it to work on Mac, yet? Also ready for Beta 1, except for OS X where it also doesn't appear to work at all :-( > Android app > =========== > > The Android app is also making great progress - but can be released > independently of 4.5 (admittedly, I'd love to release them together - but > it obviously cannot be released until 4.5 is out as it uses cloud storage > to connect to the dive data of a user). > > What's the feature set we'd want for that first release? Do we need > download on the device? Or is what Grace has right now already reasonaby > sufficient? It definitely needs lots of testing and tuning of the UI. This needs a lot more work, but in a way it doesn't have to be released with 4.5 unless we happen to get it ready in time. > User manual > =========== > > That needs massive work for all the amazing features that we have added. > Willem, will you be able to do that? > Once we have agreed on a feature set for the Android app, that needs a > separate user manual as well. Volunteers? Several people have volunteered but I haven't seen patches. But in a way this isn't strictly required for Beta 1. We can update this throughout the release cycle. So my inclination is to start the beta test soon. I have no idea how to fix the issue that two major new features don't work on the Mac. If it wasn't for that I'd be pushing for a Beta 1 within days. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
