On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:23:02 +0200 win...@genial.ms wrote: > I saw we have no git tags. I think its customary to do a > git tag -a v0.11.4
I no longer bother with tags. They seem like an old habit from when vcs branching was expensive. I just keep a branch around: git checkout -b 0.11.4 ; git reset --hard ecbc3b7 which only burdens my local repo copy. > SF uploads seem to be not repaired still, This is the most annoying part of the outage. The git-date uploads were working on the weekend. But now they are not. The latest statement is: File upload service data has been reconstructed and is pending final copying, ETA for service restoration is end of day 7/31. So, perhaps some time on the weekend. Small consolation prize for the delay; the final packages will include a backport of the fix for BR#2878. > You saw they want to sell off SF and Slashdot soon? Not the best time > for such an announcement. I see no evidence their corporate parent has a clue. Might be for the best for all concerned. I still like /. >[future plans] > - Most of the PF are out of my reach atm, as they are marked Server / > AI / WWC1D. I guess we don't have descriptions of the server and > network protocol. The AI is still tough to work with. The protocol is easy to watch if you are curious (just enable COMMS debug mode). Many of the WWC1D bugs are hard to get *Right*, but we do not have to get them right in one step, it is still worthwhile if they get better. For example, I have no real idea of how the sailing-to-Europe-post-Independence functionality should work, but I am prepared to work up a trial implementation and see how it stands up. > Exceptions where I might reach some progress are #44, #60 and, > oh the irony, the one I argued against doing, #2. Not sure if I do. I hope you dont! #2 surely should be lowest priority. #60 should be straightforward. > - I'd like to move some bits and pieces of code between controllers > and gui classes, to get a clearer separation of responsibilities. > - I'd like to clean up GUI some more to only contain the minimum > external API and hide everything else. > - I might clean up the code for image resizing some more to make it > easier for mods to replace images, by allowing differently sized ones. These are all good things to have done, which will prevent future problems, and you are the best placed to work on them. >>[Java 8] > Windows users mostly would get Java from Oracle website and only 8 > is shown there. Not sure if you can even download 7 anymore without > paying a few hundred bucks. People who forgot to upgrade we can tell. > For Linux, I guess its same as when we talked about still needing > 0.10.7 compatibility. When 8 is in debian stable and derivatives, > we might update. I do not think we have to worry about slow linux distros. If debian does not update FreeCol, then they do not care what Java we use, if they do update, they will need to at least provide the Java8 runtime or it just will not work. Its their choice. The 0.10.7-compatibility question is different, because when we break the save game format, we cause problems for users, who are often far less able than a distro-packager. > Sadly, most easily fixable bugs are gone. There is missing artwork, > Java problems, some vague problems with no clear solution or missing > information. I eventually close the need-info ones if they stay open too long without response. What would be *really* good is to make some progress with the "window goes behind the map" class of bug. Alas, I fear they are intractable. Cheers, Mike Pope
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