Am Wednesday 25 March 2009 21:48:24 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > Hi all, > > if a reminder was needed, today my mailbox had two further hints to finally > get going with a new release. > > Firstly, two people pointed out that we had an embarassing crash-problem > with the upcoming R 2.9. I hope to have fixed that. > > Secondly, the German c't magazine is asking for permission to include > RKWard on a covermount DVD-ROM.
Wow. That's something big. > They say RKWard has been pre-selected to be > included in this collection of free and shareware programs. Not sure > what "pre-selected" means, whether all they still need is our consent > (which I strongly intend to give), or whether they will do some further > post-selecting after that. However, c't really is a pretty renowned IT > magazine in Germany, and looking for developers to help in our project, a > paragraph or two in c't might be just the sort of publicity we need to get > forward. --- Well, giving them explicit permission to distribute under the > GPL is a no-brainer. The other part is getting RKWard into a presentable > state. c't is asking for feedback until April 1st. I hope we manage it. > So: > > I've created a new test version 0.5.0c-test1, available in source and > i386 .deb from http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/ (or from SVN). Note that > I'll only take care of a KDE 4 release, right now. A KDE 3 release of all > our fixes will follow (0.4.9b), but that's not my priority. > > If you've been following SVN, recently, you've seen all but the most recent > changes, already. So although releasing before April 1st could probably > best be called "sudden", I think we really are in pretty good shape to rush > it this much. Still I would like to ask you to download 0.5.0c-test1 and > > 1. test everything you care about once more > - Especially, if you have a chance to test on Ubuntu, and with > combinations of KDE and R other than KDE 4.2.1 and R 2.9, that would be > great. > 2. remind me of important issues that still need fixing. > > Two things that are not yet included in the test1 release: > 1. The German translation update provided by Jannis. I'll wait until Stefan > has given it a look (go ahead and commit to SVN, when ready). Done. Please check again. > 2. The item response theory plugins by Meik. Are those fit to be included > in the "official" pluginmap? In whole, or only partially? > > I would very much like to rush the release, in order to meet the April 1st > deadline. Since my own time schedule is hairy as well, that means I need > all substantial feedback before Monday morning. So, please, if you can find > the time, take a look until then. > Please check the changes I made to the boxplot. They work in all my tests but ... . > Regards > Thomas Regards Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel