HI Erich, good to hear, I’ll work with you on this. best regards,
René. > On 31 Jan 2021, at 18:02, Erich Steinböck <erich.steinbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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. > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
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