[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Last Steps to New Releases
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:56:43 -0600
When I said that there would probably be bugfixes after the new releases
I meant that with so many new features bugs were to be expected.
User-defined styles seem to be working fine. In fact, anyone who has
tried the test releases of liblouisxml has used them, because most
styles are now user-defined in canonical.cfg
I'm all for including the new German Grade 2 tables in this liblouis
release, so I hope Christian Egli wibl add them.
The main problem with the documentation is getting everything relating
to implementing braille mathematics codes right. I have switched from
the Nemeth implementation to the ukmaths implementation for my
explanation. The Nemeth impbementation uses an obsolete method, though
it still works, of course. The new sections also need to be added to the
menus. That could be done now, since I don't think any more new sections
will be needed.
I have updated the NEWS file in my development branch. I hope Christian
will now feel ok about merging the dohnb-devel/trunk branch of
liblouisxml back to the true trunk.
It seems to me that it is better for me to make the releases.
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:59:56PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 05:27 -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > I think we can take the last steps to the new releases,
> I think we could probably do a new release. There's enough new stuff
> that warrants it. There are two concerns though: 1) From what I can tell
> the new user-defined styles have not seen wide public testing (then
> again, they probably only will once we cut a release) and 2) Christian
> Waldvogel tells me that his tables for German grade2 are more or less
> ready for review, so it might be good to review and include them in the
> new release.
>
> > though there are still some loose ends, notably the liblouisxml
> > documentation.
> What do you think is missing in the documentation?
>
> > If it is ok with everyone, I would like to
> > update the NEWS and Changelog files and ask Christian to merge my
> > johnb-devel/trunk branch into the real liblouisxml trunk.
> > There will be bugfixes, mostly for liblouisxml.
> I have to admit I don't quite understand what you are asking for. I'm
> perfectly fine with merging your branch back to trunk. I'm also fine
> with making a new release. However if you are saying that there are some
> bugs that we know now and that these should be fixed in subsequent
> releases then I don't agree. If we know the bugs now then I think we
> should fix them now. If you are saying that there will be probably bugs
> (that are currently not known) then I'm fine with fixing them in
> subsequent releases.
>
> > It will
> > take a while to get everything there just right. I also have some
> > high-priority enhancements on which I would like to proceed without
> > worrying about releases.
> If you'd just like to work on some new features then it would probably
> be best to add a new branch off trunk once I merged everything back. If
> you like I could even take care of the release itself (i.e. make dist,
> upload and announce).
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
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>
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