Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread peerlynt
The new features are a great improvement and make my everyday life certainly easier, so I definetly like that and would like to thank you for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Hi José, in general, I very much enjoyed the overall energy that went into the release. Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I really enjoy working with this release. Also, from what

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, peerlynt wrote: for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe and Joost) for this.

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Richard Heck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I think this is a worry

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread peerlynt
The new features are a great improvement and make my everyday life certainly easier, so I definetly like that and would like to thank you for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Hi José, in general, I very much enjoyed the overall energy that went into the release. Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I really enjoy working with this release. Also, from what

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, peerlynt wrote: for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe and Joost) for this.

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Richard Heck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term release candidate :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I think this is a worry

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread peerlynt
The new features are a great improvement and make my everyday life certainly easier, so I definetly like that and would like to thank you for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Hi José, in general, I very much enjoyed the overall energy that went into the release. Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I really enjoy working with this release. Also, from what

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, peerlynt wrote: for it. I also appreciate the way issues raised by users are handled, which James has pointed out already. As I am not part of the development it seems to be somewhat difficult to evaluate what could be improved. Well its just impression I got, which might

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Especially our new developers (and I note that many of them come from the Win world) contributed fresh ideas and made LyX 1.6 a very worthy release. I suspect we owe thanks to the people behind the Windows installers (Uwe and Joost) for this.

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-10 Thread Richard Heck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I think that we should reconsider the meaning of the term "release candidate" :-) In my opinion, a release candidate is something that is really intended to be released as a final version, if no really crucial problem occurs while testing it. I think this is a

Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-09 Thread José Matos
Hi all, in order to improve the development process of LyX I would to call for feedback regarding the development of 1.6.0 I have decide to wait a bit before asking for a public evaluation avoid the transient state that occurs after the release. We are now in a better way to

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-09 Thread James Sutherland
LIKED: - Developers were very responsive to issues raised by users (primarily in the user group), and most issues were fixed in the next release candidate. - Releases were made close to the scheduled date. This encourages users to be involved in the process by knowing when to check back

Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-09 Thread José Matos
Hi all, in order to improve the development process of LyX I would to call for feedback regarding the development of 1.6.0 I have decide to wait a bit before asking for a public evaluation avoid the transient state that occurs after the release. We are now in a better way to

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-09 Thread James Sutherland
LIKED: - Developers were very responsive to issues raised by users (primarily in the user group), and most issues were fixed in the next release candidate. - Releases were made close to the scheduled date. This encourages users to be involved in the process by knowing when to check back

Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-09 Thread José Matos
Hi all, in order to improve the development process of LyX I would to call for feedback regarding the development of 1.6.0 I have decide to wait a bit before asking for a public evaluation avoid the transient state that occurs after the release. We are now in a better way to

Re: Evaluation of the 1.6 development cycle

2008-12-09 Thread James Sutherland
LIKED: - Developers were very responsive to issues raised by users (primarily in the user group), and most issues were fixed in the next release candidate. - Releases were made close to the scheduled date. This encourages users to be involved in the process by knowing when to check back