Re: [gnome-db] post-GUADEC plans

[Xabier Rodríguez Calvar <xrcalvar igalia com>(by way of Xabier Rodríguez Calvar <xrcalvar igalia com>)]

El Viernes, 20 de Junio de 2003 14:16, Rodrigo Moya escribió:
> Hi
>
> I've been this week in Dublin for GUADEC (http://www.guadec.org), and I
> come with very good news for us.
>
> I've been talking with Martin Sevior, from Abiword, about a GNOME Office
> release in August. Because of that, we talked about the following
> things:
>
> * libgda/libgnomedb should reach a 1.0 version at that time. And,
> looking at the current status, it seems we can punt some functionality
> originally planned for 1.0 and concentrate on stabilizing the current
> codebase, writing documentation, fixing crashes, etc.
> Thinking about this, it seems to me a good idea, since I have to agree
> that the objectives for 1.0 have been large too much (reports, graphics,
> lots of providers, etc). So, freezing now (or in a few weeks time so
> that some new features can be added for a little while) could help us in
> making more widely known our work. Also, it seems to me
> libgda/libgnomedb (5 years old) really need a 1.0 ASAP.
> The punted features would be marked as post-1.0 work, and we can even
> CVS branch and have people work on post-1.0 while we prepare 1.0. So,
> this means development would not be stopped. I will myself (and I hope
> other people too :-) concentrate on 1.0, but won't stop anyone to work
> on other things.

	What about prepared statements? I think it could be a good idea to include
them in the 1.0 version. This summer I return to Igalia and I think I'm going
to work on Fisterra (http://www.fisterra.org), I'm not sure about the
feature, but I'll try to talk to them to make, for instance, the support for
postgresql driver. What's your opinion?

> * unfortunately, I don't think Mergeant is ready for 1.0 yet, so all
> this would mean that we would decouple libgda/libgnomedb and mergeant to
> be separated releases. A worst consequence of this could be that
> Mergeant is not included in the GNOME Office release. Or do you think
> with a bit of bugfixing mergeant, with its current features, can be
> released as a 1.0 software?
>
> * we would need to take advantage before gnumeric/abiword freeze for the
> August release to come up with some new DB-oriented features in those 2
> programs. Both use libgda now, but I guess they could use it for more
> cool things that would allow users to operate with their databases from
> these apps. The only problem is that I'm out of imagination on this
> topic, so I'd appreciate having ideas from gnumeric/abiword users (I'll
> post a message about this to their lists as soon as we agree on the 1.0
> plan)
>
> so, what do you think?
>
> Another good news :-) The people from igalia (http://www.igalia.com)
> have used libgda for their ERP app (http://www.fisterra.org) after
> having tried with Java, and libgda was 40/50 times quicker than the Java
> technologies being used (SOAP, JDBC IIRC what they said in the talk). So
> yeah, we're ready for 1.0 :-)
>
> cheers
>
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