Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] 0.6 features

[Jesse L. <do...@to...>]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 02:57:10AM -0600, Jesse Luehrs wrote:
> Okay, so... we're getting quite close to having something releaseable
> here(: These are the things that I think need to be fixed before we
> start actually looking at a release:
> 
> - Demonspawn revert needs to be finished (sorear is working on this).
> - Final decision needs to be made about IOOD balance (dpeg says it's
>   probably okay, but it'd be nice to get some actual playtesting
>   reports).
> - Look over troves one last time, as they've had quite a bit of
>   development done on them recently.
> - Open bug reports on Mantis that really need to be fixed before
>   release:
>   - #868: Ice Form merfolk, wearing (stat mod) boots, going in water,
>     stat permachanges
>   - #656: Jiyva Piety suddenly increasing to maximum
>   - #623: Inscribing on daggers causes inscrition to appear in the wrong
>     place
>   - #362: Kraken tentacles on land look *really* weird, especially in
>     Tiles
>   - #719: The new book glyph shows up borked in the command help
>   - #378: Books on the ground, in a big stack, have the wrong glyph
> - There are several other bug reports that would be really nice to have
>   fixed before release, but I'm not sure if it would really be feasible;
>   these include #587, #771, and #839 from jpeg's list above, as well as
>   anything else tagged "0.6 target" on Mantis.
> 
> If everything goes smoothly, we should be able to get a prerelease out
> for final testing by March 8 (this gives us about a week and a half to
> this stuff worked out), and then an actual release once we're satisfied
> with the stability of the prerelease.
> 
> Thanks a lot to everyone who has been helping with this last effort at
> bugfixing!

Alright, after another awesome round of bug fixing, here's what we're
left with:

- Trove fixes (Jude is currently working on this)
- Wizlab loot balancing
- #941: Cannot run tiles from path with umlaut characters
- #646: Jiyva Piety suddenly increasing to maximum

The remaining issues that would be nice to have fixed but aren't release
blockers include:

- #956: Orbs of destructions do not destroy closed doors
- #951: Make Slouch not damage sleeping opponents
- #587: infinite loop with '`', ending in starvation
- #771: Crash upon attempting descend stairs to Hall of Blades
- #839: infinite loop due to plan 9 generating a full-rock level

And things that are probably good but would be nice to have feedback
about:

- IOOD balance
- Make sure the DS revert didn't break anything
- Piety pool and amulet of faith mechanics
- Tiles slowness should be fixed, someone who was having issues before
  should confirm this

Thanks!
-doy