No answer from me means I'm just tired of having to answer this question over and over. In my opinion, it is not ready for release yet. We still have no checked in installer solution for the mac, there are a number of unfixed bugs, the docs really, really need a thorough review and update, and there are still incomplete doc/test items on some fixed bugs and features.
Rick PS, if you're looking for me to be the one to do all of the above, it's probably not going to happen. ` On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 10:33 AM Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at> wrote: > As so far there has been no feedback whatsoever by Erich or Rick, does > that mean that there is a > silent consent to release the current beta version of ooRexx 5.0 by the > end of February 2021? > > If so, should we create a release candidate (RC) for all supported > platforms and communicate it to > allow developers and users to test it ASAP? Or do we take the fact that > for the past months and past > years there has been plenty of time to check out and test ooRexx 5.0 beta > and that we have therefore > everything relevant to know about it in our track system? > > Should there be no showstopper-errors found, let us say within the next > fourteen days, then prepare > the general availability (GA) release to be announced and distributed by > the end of February by > RexxLA from a (to be created) main/releases/5.0.0 in svn. > > Would that be acceptable for everyone? > > ---rony > > P.S.: Taking no answers as silent consent! > :) > > > On 11.01.2021 17:14, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > > On February 24th 2021, it will be seven (!) years since the last > official release of ooRexx took > > place, believe it or not! > > > > People who do not follow this list or the ooRexx code updates on > Sourceforge will think, that > > maintenance, let alone development, of ooRexx has ceased seven years > ago! :( > > > > This puts pressure on those people in organisations/businesses who use > Rexx/ooRexx but are faced > > with demands of replacements with more modern, maintained and > continuously developed programming > > languages like Python, Ruby and the like. > > > > Also, people who suggest to allow usage of ooRexx in > organisations/businesses will usually get > > turned down as ooRexx is outdated and not maintained, so why using it? > Learning about a beta version > > does not help as everyone knows that beta means error-prone, unstable > software and the like, and as > > a result organisations/businesses usually prohibit usage and deployment > of beta software. > > > > As ooRexx 5.0 beta has been in an excellent condition for many years, it > could have been released > > years ago! ooRexx 5.0 beta adds a wealth of great new features, in > addition very notable speed > > improvements and fixes many bugs of the seven years old ooRexx 4.2, the > last official release of > > ooRexx! > > > > As no show-stoppers are present I think that the current version of > ooRexx 5.0 beta should be > > released ASAP as is. The only thing needed would be a new package that > is declared to be the release > > package! > > > > Is there a will for a release? If so, can the release be done by > February 24th 2021? > > > > ---rony > > > > P.S.: Also, once a release is done, I would suggest to make sure to > create a yearly (!) release, > > even if they are only microreleases! This will signal ongoing > maintenance and development to > > outsiders/users of ooRexx, which has been the case for all those past > years (but lacking releases > > this was not communicated successfully to outsiders/users of ooRexx). > > > > P.P.S.: In today's world the release cycles are critical to public > reception of the healthiness of > > (software) projects it seems, probably the main reason why Linux creates > even twice a year a > > release, but also Java/OpenJDK and others. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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