Re: [Bodington-developers] bodington.properties defaults

[Colin T. <col...@co...>]

 > For many reasons, we need to present the
 > correct image here.

My worry is that we bung stuff in that's not properly finished/tested, 
and that's worse than not delivering on time, especially with the Boddix 
CD where the state of the build is set in stone. I think we need to 
prioritise/cut down what the most important components are if we are 
going to stick to the original deadline.

Colin

Sean Mehan wrote:
> <fc>
> I agree with Paul here. For many reasons, we need to present the  
> correct image here. 2.6 must come out at the end of the month. I  think 
> that we are pursuing timebox constraints here.
> +/- a few days, we ship 2.6 at the end of the month.
> 
> We need a 2.6 CD at the next buzz.
> 
> surely there are no bugs! and if they are, squash them in 2.6.1!-)
> On that note, what would make life easy for people to update to 2.6.1  
> when released?....
> </fc>
> 
> s
> 
> 
> On 20 Jul 2005, at 09:41, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
>> I'm seeing this from a marketing perspective.  At the last Buzz we  
>> promised
>> 2.6 in late July (and 16 establishments signed up for notification  of 
>> a new
>> release), and the next Buzz is 22 August.  What do we give away  
>> then?  It's
>> not worth doing new Bodix CDs for 2.1 or whatever the current CD  is.  
>> 2.6
>> has quickstart war, easybuilder, ACL, wysiwyg widget etc - lots of  user
>> functions.  We showed that now is a good time to get academically- 
>> related
>> people's attention. From a marketing perspective I think we should  
>> release
>> asap if at all possible, even if it means losing some functionality  
>> in the
>> short term.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Paul Davis
>> 01865 283414
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bod...@li...
>> [mailto:bod...@li...] On Behalf  
>> Of Colin
>> Tatham
>> Sent: 20 July 2005 09:27
>> To: bod...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] bodington.properties defaults
>>
>>
>> Luckily I was out yesterday and missed all those mails!
>>
>> Apart from OSSWATCH wanting to get on with making a new Boddix CD, is
>> there a deadline for the CD?
>>
>> I think it would be preferable to delay 2.6. At Oxford we've decided
>> that we will upgrade our live WebLearn server with our latest code at
>> the end of the month whether 2.6 is complete or not. Is a 2.6 delay a
>> problem at UHI? I guess so...
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>
>> Matthew Buckett wrote:
>>
>>> Matthew Buckett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Paul Davis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm inclined to get 2.6 out the door, and if necessary add stuff in
>>>>> for 2.7
>>>>> Until 2.6 goes we can't make new Bodix CDs
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As Sean suggested here are my guesses at getting the code into  HEAD 
>>> that
>>> I am due to be working on. This doesn't include any time for
>>> testing/problems.
>>>
>>> Is it ok to start pushing this stuff in? Or is the I18N not yet  
>>> finished?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> As far as I know, stuff that isn't in includes:
>>>>
>>>> HSQLDB
>>>>
>>>
>>>  - Big One, includes refactoring of bodington.properties, ant stuff,
>>> SetupServlet. 3 days.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> RSS
>>>>
>>>
>>>   - Should be reasonably easy. 1.5 days.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> ACL
>>>>
>>>
>>>   - 1.5 days in it's current state (without timed access support).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> HTML Widget
>>>>
>>>
>>>   - 1 day as I have been working on this today.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> And as Sean mentioned earlier today we still havn't done any work on
>>>> migration of 2.4 to 2.6.
>>>>
>>>
>>>   - 3 days. Would be nice to have a dump of a clean 2.1 install and a
>>> 2.4 instal which we can then test the upgrade procedure against. The
>>> problem is that testing this probably shouldn't happen until all the
>>> other code is in.
>>>
>>>
>>
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