On 03/14/2011 11:59 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > Hi, > > This decision, as I see it, change the release date from within > "months" to within some weeks -
May I ask for the calculations that led you to the conclusion that we are weeks away from a release? I haven't done the math yet, but I still expect us to be months away from a release. > I hope you have in mind that Translators have to know about so they > can update translations as possible, as well. At some reasonable point > before the release, a "string freeze" status for GIMPshould be set > (even if a few string chanegs are to happen after that). Thanks for the reminder. We should probably enter a soft string freeze soon... > Other than translation, we have to work the Python bindings so there > are no functionality regressions, (whch includes the ability to work > with layer groups) - > so to the above list of bugs, we shuld at least have one more about this task. > (this also depends on being able to transform layer groups). Not including API to work with layer groups in Python is not a regression, it's just missing functionality in one of the scripting languages. It is unfortunate if GIMP 2.8 will be released without layer groups support in Python, but the alternative is worse: not releasing GIMP 2.8 at all. And we should arrange for the Python bindings to be automatically generated from the PDB rather than wasting man-weeks on manually keeping it up to date. Not an easy task perhaps, but the only sensible one. / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Why GIMP 2.8 is not released yet" _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
