Re: [openFIRST-devel] Interim release

[Tim G. <ti...@op...>]

On 23-Aug-05, at 4:37 PM, Jamie Bliss wrote:

> Because the next release is going to be massive, I'm wondering if we
> should have an interim release, for 2 reasons:
> - To ease the transition
> - To quench the parched masses ;)

I think that's a good idea.  I'd like to see the simple Bugzilla bugs 
which are still open for assorted modules fixed, too (I'm sure one of 
the newer people could take this on as most of them are quick things to 
fix properly).

> Some of the things I'm thinking should go in there is the file
> structure changes and the new DB object.

I like that idea; were you thinking of having the DB object there as a 
required thing that's used by all the code, or being there for the 
benefit of people with custom applications to give them an opportunity 
to migrate?  I think as an interim release intended to ease the 
transition having it there but not required or necessarily used by 
everything would be helpful (e.g. no massive rewrites to every module 
just to have it work, etc.).

> We could also toss in the
> older dev module system (the one bassed on openfirst.info.php), since
> that is considerably simpler than the XML one we're working on
> currently.

I'm not a big fan of tossing in the older dev module system that's 
based on openfirst.info.php-- the last released version (which was a 
while ago) doesn't use it and I don't see the point in having people 
migrate to it in the interim and then away from it when the next full 
release comes out.  If we don't formally release anything using 
openfirst.info.php we'll never have to worry about officially 
supporting it in the future and maintaining some semblance of 
compatibility which I think would simplify our lives considerably in 
the future (especially since there is no Support Coordinator at the 
present time).

> Anybody up to this?

By all means; I could use the practice packaging another release (it's 
been a while) and may even end up writing some new tools to help me out 
(reference: BZ id #243).


Tim