On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think, we need to fix date for release, then we must work to honour >> that date. That will make us to stretch our-self to work more, and our >> release may see a day of light. > > I agree that we must set a release date. "It will be ready when it is > ready" means it won't be ready soon in a totally volunteer-run > project. > > Although, since the library is still very unstable and hasn't freezed > its API I think we must set a release plan before setting a date, and > then set a date that is compatible with it. > > This roadmap is the first thing that comes to my mind: > > - merge gagan's work, polish > - merge avneet's work, polish > - make sure at least R13 to R2000 works reasonably (specially handles) > - review bug reports in Savannah > - review and incorporate patches in Savannah > - check if all copyright assignments are OK > - check if modified files carry respective author and year mentions > > What would make for (a) later release(s): > > - better R2004 support > - merge Till's R2007 branch (although I see no reason not to merge it > right now and warn the user that it'll crash) > - review and merge guruprasad rane's testing framework > - fix python bindings > - make python bindings more python-ey (probably rewrite them from > scratch with something else than SWIG) > - incorporate work that Felipe Castro has done recently on libdwg
Nice roadmap! We need to update the wiki page too. > Considering that we haven't had much activity here lately, this seems > too tight. Maybe one month from now? No problems. We need to do it a bit quicker though. > What do you guys think of this plan? We would be glad if each one of > us reading this list could pick up a task and work on it. Sure! I would merge the branches as soon as refactoring branch is repaired and Avneet responds here. After that polishing will be done. > BTW, GSoC 2014 has been launched and GNU has applied as an > organization. I am an eligible student. Any ideas/plans for LibreDWG ? -- Thanks Gaganjyot http://codeify.wordpress.com "Jai Sai Naath"
