Re: [Gramps-devel] What would constitute a 1.0 release?

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:29:14PM -0600, Don Allingham wrote:
> Now that 0.9.4 is out, the question in the back of my mind is "How would
> we define a 1.0 release?"
>=20
> Are there features we are missing?
> Is there a lack of stabilty that we need to address?
> Is their some type of polish that we are lacking?

Good questions :-) Here's my take on this.

I think that 1.0 assumes certain maturity. I also think that gramps may=20
be mature enough for what it's doing, but it is fundamentally limited=20
by the memory issue.

There was recently a bug filed at sf.net reporting trouble after=20
importing a database with about 950,000 people. We can't operate data=20
chunks this big, and it somewhat sucks. The real database backend would=20
solve this (well, it would actually trade off speed for capacity :-).

Another hot issue is printing: we should be able to integrate with=20
gnome-print. The ability to produce PDF is currently impaired for=20
anything with non-ascii characters, and PDF is probably the most common=20
cross-platform, cross-content (meaning text and graphics :-) format.

So, I would think getting the above two items will definitely warrant=20
the name of 1.0 release. However, we can instead declare these as=20
target milestones for, say, 1.4 or 2.0, and instead focus on the=20
impeckable stability and polish. In that case we might be close enough.=20
I don't think we actually lack stability or polish as such, but one can=20
always improve things...

Just my few cents,
Alex

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