RV: [Testimony-devel] Testimony: v 1.2 status and ideas for the future versions

[Carlos T. <ct...@te...>]

Hi Peter,

> Seems like we agree on almost all points! :)

I'm happy about that :)

> > That's really a big modification (I think could go for the version 2).
> > The idea is use Testimony as something more than and offline 
> > indexing tool, but also as a Comic Organizer/DataBase. I think that 
> > that should be configurable and the user should be able to select if 
> > wants to work in "indexing mode" or "collector mode". As I say it's 
> > a big change and I want to talk about that before doing anything. 
> > But again, that should go for version 2 :)
>
> This is a massive change... I am a little bit hesistant to change the 
> main use case of the application. It could be that I'm just a coward, 
> though :) - at least I think we agree that this would need 
> considerable discussion.

OK, will turn to that when the time comes :)

> Also, I think that if the OI should come up during this time, we 
> should wait with the features on the list and do the submittal of 
> indexes.

Seems that will come up at June 26th (we'll see). Once the OI is correctly
working, I think will be the time to aproach to Jon again about the SQL
access, but I also think that the Testimony project should be a bit more
alive before asking Jon to commit to that :)

> > About the 1.2.5 version: I think that's not really a version, but 
> > only some intermediate point to finish, fixing and enhancing some 
> > allready existing features. That remembers me that we've not touch 
> > the possibility to do new versions more often. I think that, for 
> > example we could go with something like 1.2.1 (finish the progress 
> > bar work);
> > 1.2.2 (finish the error system); ..... and so on. That will be the 
> > same for other versions, were we could go incrementing versions as 
> > we finish new features or fixings. In that way we remove the beta
status.
>
> I agree that we could do more and smaller releases.
> This will also make it easier to get out bug fixes quickly. Once the 
> build file is ready, it will be easier to do the release I hope. I' 
> hoping that I'll be able to do some work on it this week.

Perfect. I'll try to finish with all the small fixings that I'm doing now
AFAP

Regards,
Carlos.

PS: By the way, the new Ant file is not working correctly doing the
CheckStyle task.