Re: Working towards 0.95

["Torben H. Nielsen" <torben t-hoerup dk>]

Mandag den 6. februar 2006 23:39 skrev Hans Breuer:
> On 06.02.2006 21:06, Torben H. Nielsen wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > First a big thank you to Hans and Lars for the great work they're doing
> > for dia and the dia community!!
>
> Thank you.
>
> > I am very excited about the thought that we'll soon have a new stable
> > release of dia with many new features. But the progress towards against a
> > stable release is not only for the core developers - the recent
> > announcement of a feature freeze is a wake-up call to the entire
> > community. Now we have to help the developers squish the last critical
> > bugs and help with the documentation and translation (as soon as a string
> > freeze is declared).
>
> At the moment I think there will be a pre1 at the next weekend except some
> critical bugs will be reported before that date (yes, please do report them
> if you could find some ;))

Before doing a pre1 you should consider disabling the timing/debug code in 
app/display.c introduced in revision 1.88:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dia/app/display.c?r1=1.87&r2=1.88


> > Hans and Lars, please let us know whether there are som areas, which need
> > some extra intensive crash-testing, so that we soon can have a good and
> > stable release.
>
> This is a difficult question. (The last crashing bug I found was doing
> something I usually don't use; anti-aliased view with chronogram objects.)
> So this is mostly *not* do what I do but more do what I say :-)
>
> Here's my try on a simple answer:
> - please check if what you are usually doing is still working, i.e.:
>    - load your old diagrams
>    - process (export, modify, save, reload, ...) them
>    - ...
>    - do something unusual (e.g. different order of closing)
> - maybe create some custom shapes or ensure your old ones are still ok.
>
> Another way would be to go to
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=dia&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_s
> everity=blocker&bug_severity=critical
>
> and check if could reproduce NEEDINFO bugs or otherwise provide useful
> information.
>
> Yet another way could be to go through feature requests and normal bugs
> and check if they still apply. Add some note otherwise.
>
> The 'portal page' of Dia's bug-tracking is
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=dia

Here are some comments on a few bugs:
(Please note that my testing is one on Mandriva 2006)

#95537: The requested shapes are already in current CVS, so this should be 
closed

#163574: cannot reproduce with current cvs, should either be marked as 
needinfo or closed

#129022: can not reproduce, is currently needinfo - should this be closed?

Regards
Torben