[Opensim-dev] 0.7 Release Discussion

[James Stallings II]

I think its a great tone Stefan :D
I think that even failing to accomplish the goals of such an effort would
produce much benefit for the project.

Sign me up :)

*sharpens mantis pencils*



On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se>wrote:

>  Again, this would be entirely by agreement - anybody not wishing to do bug
> fixing can do whatever they like, but I do think even core devs get a kick
> out of bugfixing now and then, and adding stuff like those pesky last lsl
> commands.
>
> Regarding the mantis, there are several things that can be done; and what I
> was _really_ thinking was that "clearing" would mean "getting organized"
>
> If we can rally users and testers to help with the mantis, there are a
> number of things that can be done;
> 1) De-duplicate
> 2) Place mantis is "feature" vs "bug" - I did say "feature freeze" and this
> is roughly what I meant - the feature mantises would linger, but would not
> be part of this endeavour
> 3) Off major feature bugs onto the feature voting site
> 4) Re-reproduce and close of non-reproducible
> 5) Place major issues (that would require major restructuring) in a "post
> 0.7.0" category
>
> This way, we could "clear" mantis, as in getting to a point where
> all issues with the current feature set is fixed or closed.
>
> Again, only striving to set a tone.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:34:36 -0700
>
> From: nebadon2025 at gmail.com
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] 0.7 Release Discussion
>
> I can agree with that, if everyone else agrees i have no problem with it, I
> would just hate for anyone to think that we are locking things up and they
> wont have our support.  And mostly i was more concerned with trying to clear
> mantis, that seams a bit unrealistic, as a good portion of fixing the mantis
> probably rely on us instituting many feature requests.  It kind of goes
> against the whole premise of freezing up feature requests.
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se>wrote:
>
> Wise from experience, I would never propose anything as preposterous as to
> tell any core dev to do anything.
>
> But if a substantial part of core devs and the patching community think
> it's a good idea and can be swayed to rally for it, I think we can see some
> really extraordinary measures that would make us all look pretty god damn
> good.
>
> And hell, I stated it would be ambitious. Aim for the stars, hit the
> treetops, you know.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:24:51 -0700
> From: nebadon2025 at gmail.com
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] 0.7 Release Discussion
>
>
> Have you even looked at mantis??? there are 728 open tickets, chances are
> if we clear mantis, we will have OpenSimulator 1.0.. I personally don't see
> this as feasible, this is to me looks like us trying to control what all the
> developers are doing, and I have to -1 this idea as it would probably make
> most devs just stop working.
>
> Neb
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se>wrote:
>
>
> I do believe we're all feeling the advent of 0.7 - a milestone in any open
> source project.
>
> Here's a crazy idea for you; how about we agree to freeze feature set and
> major architecture as of now, and concentrate on only:
>
> * Finalizing the backend restructuring
> * Clear mantis (hell, let's CLEAR mantis! how's that for ambitious?)
> * Write unit tests
>
> until the cows come home, and tag the cow homecoming rev as 0.7? Or, say,
> 1st of aug happens, and we'll tag 0.6.7 then instead. ;)
>
> I believe this kind of solidified 0.7 would give us all a breather, help us
> recoup, and then we can all go back to fiddling with our various dev
> projects again.
>
> What you say?
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
>
>
>
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