René, I'll see what I can do, time and skills permitting. I have no experience how to convince distributions to pick up ooRexx 5 or to bring it into the Windows Store.
Erich On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 2:02 PM René Jansen <rvjan...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > I agree with Rick here. > > But: the problem here is that the notions of GA, ‘golden’ are from the > last century and might not be applicable in this day and age. I see a lot > of software projects having two lines of release, one stable and one > rolling. It is a fact, though, that there are companies still adhering to > those older notions, some of them are ex-Open Object Rexx clients from IBM, > and RexxLA has obligations towards those clients for maintaining and > improving the product, on condition of which it was delivered the source > code. The moment that the 4.X releases (our ‘stable release’) don’t work > properly anymore, we are defaulting on that agreement. I might all be > academic because those companies seem to be moving to other languages; that > may or may not be our fault. > > But whatever the state of the code, being in beta for 7 years is not a > good sign for viability of any project. The problem here was declaring a > beta, when in fact it was still pre-release code. For the future, we should > refrain from calling a release a beta when we do not have a plan for a > release. > > In my opinion, we need a plan to address this problem. It should be a plan > to release on a specific date, on the condition that work has been done on > a few issues. > > 1) What: Classify the open issues in ‘showstoppers' and ‘other’ > categories. Flag them as such. Who: Rick and Erich, René. When: March 31, > 2021 > 2) What: Commit all installers, tests and other improvements we have. Who: > P.O., Rony and others. When: February 15, 2021 > 3) What: Identify documentation issues. Who: Rick and Rony, Erich, others. > When: Februari 28, 2021 > 4) What: Improve documentation along identified issues. Who: Gil, Jon, > René, Rony, Walter, others. When: April 15, 2021 > 5) What: fix, freeze, prepare and test GA release. Who: P.O., Erich, Rick, > others. When: May 1st, 2021. > > I know I cannot decide on other people’s time, so I just hope we can agree > to this, on a best effort base. I hope we all see the predicament we are > in. When we have this in the past, we can decide on release approaches that > are a better fit. > > Please react on, and improve on this planning, so we can have something we > can commit to soon. > > best regards, > > René. >
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