Re: [Madwifi-devel] release
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From: John B. <jb...@pd...> - 2006-03-05 16:45:12
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I agree, the main issue is developer time - I also think we should reorder the milestone plan also according to what the developers are working on and have time for. For instance, I'm pretty sure none of the devs use ad-hoc mode, and there are a ton of bugs with it. I vote we move it to version 2.0 feature, unless someone really decides they want ad-hoc mode to work or an outside party wants to fund development. I feel like for the most part the current svn version is stable for use in plain managed or master mode, which is what 90% of people do when they use the driver. John Michael Renzmann [ma...@no...] wrote: >Hi. > >On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 00:52 -0500, John Bicket wrote: >> Are there any real issues that are preventing a .90 release soon? Like >> tomorrow? I know there are still quite a few bugs unresolved in trac >> under version .90, but none of them seem to have anything to do with >> "moving to the new codebase," which I thought was the point of a .90 >> release. > >Check http://madwifi.org/milestone/version%200.9.0%20-%20move%20to%20new >%20codebase : > >* port missing features from CVS HEAD to trunk > * fix at least every "more-than-just-annoying" bug reported by public > testers > * have trunk/ in a similar stable state as madwifi-old > >That's the goals we declared for the 0.9.0 release. > >There was quite some stuff in CVS HEAD which has not yet been ported >over to -ng. We have a whole bunch of "more-than-just-annoying" bugs in >open tickets (at least most of the bugs that lead to kernel oopses are, >IMO, more than just annoying). > >It maybe would be worth to think of reordering the milestones plan. Any >comment/suggestion/idea is highly welcome. > >> Even a 1.0 release soon wouldn't be out of the question; maybe there >> should be a deadline set and a "bug day" designated to work on >> unresolved issues. > >I would be glad if we finally could make our first release, really. And >maybe I have a wrong pov on that, but let's face it: we're running very >low on development power right now. I'm busy with business stuff (due to >a new position in the company I work for) and have nearly no time I can >spend for working on MadWifi. Sven seems to be busy as well. You and >Pavel were also working in a "as I find time scheme" (which is really >not meant as offense!). > >Personally, I can't reliably tell when my spare time situation changes. >So, from my pov, setting up a deadline wouldn't - it either had to be >far in the future, or it most probably can't be kept. > >Again, I might have a wrong view on that, so please speak up if I am. >I'd be glad to see some discussion on that topic. > >Bye, Mike |