[Opensim-dev] on to 0.7

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Cristina Videira Lopes wrote:
> BTW, I guess my email also serves as a statement of voluntarism to act 
> as release 0.7 coordinator -- unless one of you wants to do it.

I'm happy if you want to co-ordinate 0.7 :)  But could we agree on a process for the later stages, something like

http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Release_Cycle

which is largely what I've been following since 0.6.7?

> 
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>>
>>> diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I would like to try to make a list of things that need to happen for 
>>>> 0.7 to be tagged. Here's the start. Please add things that you think 
>>>> are missing. Note that this is not about fixing all problems with 
>>>> OpenSim, it's about tagging 0.7 as a relatively stable release, 
>>>> which will then allow all downstream projects to adapt to the new 
>>>> architecture and DB schema.
>>>
>>> Of course, before tagging 0.7 take places we would need to branch 
>>> 0.7-post-fixes and do a release candidate or two :).  Right?
>>
>> Right. But that's execution. In between the goal (tagging 0.7) and the 
>> execution comes the planning :-)
>>
>>>
>>> In fact, tomorrow I intend to crank out a 0.6.9 release candidate.  I 
>>> don't see that release process taking less than 3 weeks due to 
>>> limited time on my end.
>>
>> oh. If that is your timing for 0.6.9, then I suggest to skip it and 
>> invest our efforts directly in 0.7. May take more than 3 weeks, but 
>> there's no point in pursuing 2 releases more or less in parallel; I 
>> think we are ready to start the tagging process for 0.7 very soon, 
>> hence this thread to gather input in order to make a plan of action.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> - GridUser service in place, replacing the home info storage that is 
>>>> currently done awkwardly by the presence service
>>>> - Estate owner feature restored, as a replacement of Master Avatar
>>>> - Assorted DB migration issues fleshed out and fixed (several mantis)
>>>> - Remote Admin bugs fixed (#4603)
>>>> - Fix #4622
>>>
>>> I would add Mantis #4613 where it looks like the presence-refactor 
>>> broke IAR load/save.
>>>
>>> And as ever, I would add reasonable documentation to that list for 
>>> both standalone and grid modes.
>>>
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