Hi guys, I've just had a look at the release schedule for the next Ubuntu release (Jaunty), and I would really like gEDA 1.6.0 to be included.
This means we need 1.6.0 released at the end of January / very early February, since we would have to get it packaged and included in Debian / Ubuntu before the feature freeze date of February 19th. I want 1.6.0 to be as good as we possibly can make it, but there is an argument that a 1.6.0 sooner, with the odd (minor) bug would be better than waiting to get everything perfect and missing the packaging deadline. Once we've got 1.6.0 in the door before the feature freeze, incremental updates 1.6.1, 1.6.2 can be accepted much later in the process, with a freeze around March 19th, and a final freeze at April 9th. There is quite a bit of work to do before then: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:todos I think we can make it if we try. There are quite a few tasks under the 1.5.2 and 1.6.0 headings which can be fixed as nice "first project" type coding tasks, and some which aren't coding related at all, such as checking and updating the shipped symbols. I'm confident that I can land the drawing fixes, and (probably optional) cairo rendering during that time. (My main remaining issue is rendered text extents). Why should we care about Ubuntu and its release schedule? 1. Because I say so ;) 2. Because we care about our users, we want to make sure those who get software from distribution packages are able to use a reasonably up-to-date and bug free version. 3. Its a major distribution which it would appear that a lot of our new users are favouring. 1.4.x is a good stable version of gEDA, but I'd really like that more of our user base gets to see the shiny goodness that will be 1.6.x. 4. I suspect other distributions are on a similar schedule, since they all pretty much lock-step with GNOME and Xorg releases etc.. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
