[htdig-dev] Re: Release schedule for 3.2.0b5?

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

Well, I had an oral exam on Thursday, so I've been quite busy the last 
few weeks and fortunately things should settle down a bit. (I can't say 
I followed much e-mail unless my filters threw it into the "Family" 
mailbox, sorry.)

>> SHOWSTOPPER:
>> * Still need thorough testing of the database, with Neal's zlib
>> patch Any ideas how we can test this thoroughly?

Seems like you've got a pretty good start so far. I'd be glad to run 
some larger-scale digs under Mac OS X. Is there another platform we can 
throw into the mix Neal? I can offer RH8.0 as well, but I don't know 
that this would shed any new light on things.

As far as a large-scale test, I'd be glad to tar up the htdig.org 
website including mail archives. >:-)

>> TESTING:
>> * httools programs: (htload a test file, check a few
>> characteristics, htdump and compare)

I haven't written an actual test-suite script for this, but I do run 
these tests by hand. If anyone has any suggestions on what all I should 
be testing, please let me know.

>> * Test field restricted searching

Lachlan, does this fall into your area?

>> DOCUMENTATION:
>> * Split attrs.html into categories for faster loading.
>>   (i.e., commit Ted's scripts)

Hmm. Let's see how this comes along. It's nice right now, but I don't 
know that we'd want to put it in a release within a few weeks. But any 
decision on that can wait.

>> Fri 14 Feb: Last additions to the above TO-DO list
>> Fri 21 Feb: Feature freeze.
>> 	    No new features added.  All available development
>> 	    effort for testing, bug fixes, documentation and
>> 	    configure/install issues

I don't see any reason we shouldn't stick to a feature freeze. Is there 
any feature we're somehow leaving out right now?

>> Fri 28 Feb: Code freeze.  Testing and documenting only.
>> 	    Update version number throughout.
>> Fri  7 Mar: Release.

This may be ambitious. I've never knowingly sent out a release that had 
a database bug. So we obviously want to kill that SHOWSTOPPER soon. 
Neal, how much time do you have to devote to the bug?

Would it help for me to set up valgrind on my RH box?

-Geoff