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[Libvisual-devel] releasing and stuff.

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

Duilio,

Do you think it's possible to release at sunday, as in,
a good release ? :)

I think that in the case we want to work towards a release
this sunday evening we might want to have a list of bullet points
that needs to be looked at.

On the top of my head:

* Good bug reporting description.
* Make very clear that this is WIP software.
* --enable for all plugins, however I think we might discard the
  videotest plugin (it was used for very early debugging).
* Frame rate limiter helper functions within libvisual.
* XMMS plugin changed so it uses libvisual frame limiting.
* Create NEWS files.


I think we both agree that the goal of this release is to fix the
previous mess and have a good buildtree. After this has settled
we can focus on features again :)

After the release we also might start thinking about creating a list
of changes, features we want in the following (0.1.6) release.

Gustavo please hold your mplayer stuff till 0.1.5 is released btw ;)

Thanks,
Dennis

Re: [Libvisual-devel] releasing and stuff.

[Gustavo S. B. <gu...@gs...>]

Em Friday 25 June 2004 11:26, Dennis Smit escreveu:
> Gustavo please hold your mplayer stuff till 0.1.5 is released btw ;)

I'll :) I don't have time right now :(

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[Libvisual-devel] Re: releasing and stuff

[Duilio J. P. <dp...@fc...>]

> Do you think it's possible to release at sunday, as in,
> a good release ? :)

Ok.

> I think that in the case we want to work towards a release
> this sunday evening we might want to have a list of bullet points
> that needs to be looked at.
> 
> On the top of my head:
> 
> * Good bug reporting description.
> * Make very clear that this is WIP software.
> * --enable for all plugins, however I think we might discard the
>   videotest plugin (it was used for very early debugging).

Ok, just drop it.

> * Frame rate limiter helper functions within libvisual.
> * XMMS plugin changed so it uses libvisual frame limiting.

I say my opinion on previous mail.

> * Create NEWS files.

Very important.

According to GNU standards, NEWS file must talk about user visible
changes made in the software. In the case of libvisual itself, users
are developers, but NEWS must talk about changes on the interface or
buiding process, or a major performance improvement, not changes in
the code (which are in ChangeLog).


Duilio.

Re: [Libvisual-devel] Re: releasing and stuff

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 20:31 -0300, Duilio Javier Protti wrote:
> > * Create NEWS files.
> 
> Very important.
> 
> According to GNU standards, NEWS file must talk about user visible
> changes made in the software. In the case of libvisual itself, users
> are developers, but NEWS must talk about changes on the interface or
> buiding process, or a major performance improvement, not changes in
> the code (which are in ChangeLog).

Thanks for the information, I didn't knew that GNU has real standards
for this!

You don't have any items to add to the list of things TODO before
sunday right ?

We might start on thinking about 0.1.6,

Do you have any ideas for the versioning system ?, besides that I
personally want to land the param system and do some plugin stuff.

Cheers,
Dennis

[Libvisual-devel] versioning system

[Duilio J. P. <dp...@fc...>]

> We might start on thinking about 0.1.6,
> 
> Do you have any ideas for the versioning system ?, besides that I
> personally want to land the param system and do some plugin stuff.

The versioning system will take us just a couple of days.
Technically is simple to resolve, but we must decide how
to make evolve the versions. To understand the libtool notion
of versioning, I send you attached a fragment of the libtool 
documentation. I really recommend you to read it, the question
is explained very clear there.


Duilio.