Re: [Tracker] Releasing 0.7 Next Week

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 22/09/09 04:23, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> How would you feel about delaying release until end of next week? I know
> we are desperate to get something out of the door but I feel an extra
> week will allow us to release something thats more polished

This is the 3rd week we have put things off. So I don't think we should.

> I suggest going into feature freeze end of this week and spend all of
> next week fixing bugs prior to the release (there are quite a few
> annoying bugs especially in rdf classes)

This is what we will be doing after the 0.7 release. People will know it 
is an unstable release and that we will be releasing often with fixes.

> We should be mindful that a release will also break a lot of existing
> apps (nautilus and file chooser spring to mind). I dont know if anyone
> has time to fix those? If not we will need to state clearly what apps
> are broken in the release notes

Well, apps don't _HAVE_ to upgrade yet. Also we have been fixing 
nautilus and the file chooser already. I think Jürg has finished that 
now right Jürg?

> Its also imperative that an update from 0.6 series to 0.7 series is
> tested so we can make sure a reindex is forced and preferences are
> migrated correctly - Im more worried about the upgrade process than
> anything else as a hell of a lot has changed here

No, this is not true.

There are a number of reasons why.

1. The config is stored in completely different places and not compatible.

2. 0.6 and 0.7 _CAN_ co-exist at the same time, that's how it has been 
designed.

3. A fresh index will happen anyway because the database names have 
changed too - so old and new dbs can exist in the same place.

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The only consideration here, is if we should port the config to the new 
config and we could do that with some script I suppose.

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Regards,
Martyn