On 09.01.2013 03:28, Michael T. Pope wrote: > There are several housekeeping issues pending. > > - sourceforge upgrade > > Unless there are objections I plan to click the sourceforge `upgrade > project' link fairly soon, albeit not earlier than 20130110 0000 UTC. > AFAICT the world is unlikely to end as a result, although commits made > during the upgrade might get lost, so I will report back when it is > all done. To speed the process up I have disabled the git repo for now. > > What will definitely change are the repo URLs, and the entire > developer list will be spammed with a notification of this. This will > probably be annoying to some, but who knows, might prompt an inactive > developer to have another look. > > Also: > > ``Prior to upgrading, you can obtain a copy of your project's data as > an XML file by clicking on the project name, selecting Project Admin ยป > Features, then selecting XML Export.'' > > I have done this. Other admins may wish to. >
Done. > - git > > Once we are happy with the new sourceforge setup, I will bring git > back up, but this time with a real up to date tree and complete > history. We can then contemplate migrating off svn. > I think we should. > - Java > > It is probably time to bump our minimum required Java version from 1.5 > to 1.6/6. 1.5 is quite dead, whereas 6 is only under threat of death. > I have no objections, unless Java 1.6 proves to be unavailable for some supported platform (you never know). > - Next release > > I would really like to fix the nasty problems when colonies disappear > or are captured when not visible. However this looks really hard to > do while maintaining 0.9.x compatibility. Assuming we do not have > another showstopper bug in 0.10.7 necessitating another quick 0.10.x > release, what are your thoughts on the next release being 0.11.0. Or > of course, 1.0:-). > > > Cheers, > Mike Pope > I would favour calling the next major release 0.11.0. In the near-term future, I intend to improve various map graphics by using alpha-blending and auto-generated tiles. I also intend to work on map loading and importing, as well as improving the map editor and the map generator. Of course, there are various model clean-ups on the back-burner, and removing 0.9.x compatibility code also remains on the agenda. Regards Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Freecol-developers mailing list Freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers
