Re: [Tracker] Releasing Tracker 0.6.90

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:36 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > Hi Jamie,
> >
> > So we have been in a state of bug fixing on Tracker trunk now for a good 
> > few months ironing out issues we have found and preparing for a release.
> >
> > We would like to make this release at the end of next week if possible.
> >
> > How do you feel about this?
> >
> > Would you like me to do the release or would you like to do it?
> >
> > Are there any issues/questions you have before releasing?
>
> I feel I need more time to asses this - can we delay releasing til next
> week please

Yes, that's fine of course. Gives us more time to test some of the 
crashers reported.

> I ran it over the weekend and noticed some heavy disk IO

That might have been the evolution bug we fixed over the last couple of 
days (recursively indexing evolution mail) - problematic because we get 
CLOSE_WRITE for the folders.db quite often from Evolution re-reading the 
file.

> I plan to test it on much bigger volumes this weekend and check more of
> the functionality and preference options. I also need to test upgrading
> from 0.6.6 to make sure its a smooth transition

That makes sense. We have tried to fix a lot of the application bugs as 
we go along. There might be some we missed.

> On the whole it looks ok and it might just need some minor tinkering
> before release - thanks for all the hard work guys!

No problem.

One further thing was about updating the website. Is this just an SVN 
module we can checkout and update? If so, are you happy for me to do that?

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Regards,
Martyn