0.2.6, a call for testers?

[WaxDragon]

Alex's patches are in, and I saw him call for 0.2.6 on irc, but
there have been a few regressions discovered.  Do we need to have a
bughunt / regression test / code freeze?  The last couple of releases
(that I have been around for) we have created the branch, then applied
bugfixes against it, then backported to HEAD.  Is this the way we
should do this? Should we "freeze" HEAD and then branch?

I found that vncviewer no longer starts for me, and Alex said that
Abiword doesn't work for him.  The wallpaper was reported to have
regressed also.  I personally will test the wallpaper and all the
other things I care about tonight.  Maybe we should have others check
over things too..

Just curious,
WD
-- 
The cheese stands alone.

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: WaxDragon
>
> Alex's patches are in, and I saw him call for 0.2.6 on 
> irc, but there have been a few regressions discovered.  Do we 
> need to have a bughunt / regression test / code freeze?  The 
> last couple of releases (that I have been around for) we have 
> created the branch, then applied bugfixes against it, then 
> backported to HEAD.  Is this the way we should do this? 
> Should we "freeze" HEAD and then branch?

Since we're way behind schedule for the release anyway, I'd prefer it if we
can postpone the branch until Wednesday. By then, I should have merged the
latest Wine release. If not, branch anyway Wednesday. Then a week feature
freeze, until 23 March. A few days code freeze and release in the weekend
26/27 March. How does that sound to everyone?
> I found that vncviewer no longer starts for me, and Alex 
> said that Abiword doesn't work for him.  The wallpaper was 
> reported to have regressed also.  I personally will test the 
> wallpaper and all the other things I care about tonight.  
> Maybe we should have others check over things too..

AbiWord 2.0.5 still works, but the latest version (2.2.something) doesn't.

Ge van Geldorp.

[Robert Köpferl]

Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> Since we're way behind schedule for the release anyway, I'd prefer it if we
> can postpone the branch until Wednesday. By then, I should have merged the
> latest Wine release. If not, branch anyway Wednesday. Then a week feature
> freeze, until 23 March. A few days code freeze and release in the weekend
> 26/27 March. How does that sound to everyone?

I have not that big opinion to that but I'd say: At some point we have 
to. So let's make some kind of cut.

thus I declare to make a branch at Wednesday or Thursday as Ge thought.
Any interrupts?
> > I found that vncviewer no longer starts for me, and Alex 
> > said that Abiword doesn't work for him.  The wallpaper was 
> > reported to have regressed also.  I personally will test the 
> > wallpaper and all the other things I care about tonight.  
> > Maybe we should have others check over things too..
>
> AbiWord 2.0.5 still works, but the latest version (2.2.something) doesn't.

This would be nice and I thing backports are the right thing.
> Ge van Geldorp.
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[Gge]

Robert Köpferl wrote:
> Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> > I found that vncviewer no longer starts for me, and Alex said that
> > > Abiword doesn't work for him.  The wallpaper was reported to have 
> > > regressed also.  I personally will test the wallpaper and all the 
> > > other things I care about tonight.  Maybe we should have others check 
> > > over things too..
> >
> > AbiWord 2.0.5 still works, but the latest version (2.2.something) 
> > doesn't.
>
> This would be nice and I thing backports are the right thing.
> > Ge van Geldorp.

I used abiword 2.2.1 last night and it worked OK.
May somody confirm ?

Regards
Gerard

[Jason Filby]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:02:44 +0100, Robert Köpferl [e-mail] wrote:
> thus I declare to make a branch at Wednesday or Thursday as Ge thought.
> Any interrupts?

Sounds good.

Cheers
Jason