The FreeCol 0.11.4 commit has been made (git.ecbc3b7) but the release upload is stuck at sourceforge. Nevertheless feel free to push on with anything we have postponed until after release[1]. Hopefully the download directory will be live by this time tommorow, at which point I will upload the website changes, post the release announcements, and update the trackers.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the best release of FreeCol ever[2], particularly to the new members of the development team. Looking ahead, my personal rough plans are: - I have several minor patches (often annotated TODO-post-0.11.4) backed up due to the string freeze which I want to revise and clear out. - After that I will look at other things that were stalled by the release, such as Fenyo's contributions and the client options handling improvements discussed here. - I have a bunch of work in the general category of enhanced trade routes, which I have been play testing. It is looking good, but needs better messages and documentation. - I have a short list of "Stupid AI tricks" that I have seen in recent play testing. It is about time for some more AI enhancements. - However the main game has to be the PF list, probably starting with: #36, #23, #24, #26, #59. More general thoughts for the next release: - We should move to Java 8. Opinions on timing solicited. - There is some magic in ReportTurnPanel.insertMessage that makes some items on the turn report clickable. I would really like to make more things clickable, and expand this to other panels. And while we are at it, implement the IR that calls for text to be cut-and-pasteable. - This time, fixing America_large should be a release-blocker. - Keep hammering on the bug list, we should be able to get it below 40 unless we get a lot of new needs-info reports. - Even better would be to get the PFs below 30. There are 43 open ATM, of which I think we can at least improve 23 without depending on more WWC1D progress. Indeed, if we reach a point where the open PFs are all low priority (e.g. PF#2) or WWC1D quantitative issues (PF#34), it will be time for v1.0 IMHO. Cheers, Mike Pope [1] Especially anything that would benefit from independent testing, the earlier in a cycle such work is committed the better. [2] OK, I always think that.
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