Geert Janssens <[email protected]> writes: [snip] > I ran these tests. The reports fail fairly gracefully. Every option for which > I changed the name is reset to it's default value after the change. For now > the options I changed are: > * From/To -> Start date/End date > * Accounts to include/Report Accounts -> Accounts > * Filter Accounts -> Filter by... > > None of these introduced new strings, but this means a number of options will > be reset on reports that are still open and saved reports. > > So two things have to be decided on here: > 1. Are these report option resets acceptable ? Personally, I think now is > better than in a future maintenance release.
Agreed. > 2. I had attached a patch with some more option consistency fixes to > http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/ticket/556713, which I was keeping for > after the string freeze because they were changing strings. This now > becomes a very debatable patch: I don't think these changes should be > introduced in a maintenance release. I don't think our users would > like to see their carefully customized reports being reset in a stable > series. Introducing the changes now would break string freeze. A third > option would be to wait for 2.6 with these changes. I agree. Either the reset happens now (breaking the string freeze) or it waits until 2.5/2.6. I don't have a strong opinion about it personally -- you'll have to ask the translators if they mind. If it's only adding one or two strings then I think it's probably okay. > Lastly, suppose we keep the changes I did now, where should the report > options reset effect be documented ? In the release notes ? The FAQ ? > Somewhere else ? All of the above? Certainly in the release notes. Probably in the FAQ or Wiki. > Geert -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [email protected] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
