Re: [Tracker] Releasing 0.7 Next Week

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade nokia com>]

Hi,

El mar, 22-09-2009 a las 09:15 +0200, ext Martyn Russell escribiÃ:
> On 22/09/09 04:23, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > How would you feel about delaying release until end of next week? I know
> > we are desperate to get something out of the door but I feel an extra
> > week will allow us to release something thats more polished
>
> This is the 3rd week we have put things off. So I don't think we should.

This is a development release, so the people should expect a good amount
of rough edges. The goal is to provide to _application developers_ a
first version to play. 


> > Its also imperative that an update from 0.6 series to 0.7 series is
> > tested so we can make sure a reindex is forced and preferences are
> > migrated correctly - Im more worried about the upgrade process than
> > anything else as a hell of a lot has changed here
>
> 1. The config is stored in completely different places and not compatible.
>
> 2. 0.6 and 0.7 _CAN_ co-exist at the same time, that's how it has been 
> designed.

 The idea is: parallel installation until everything is ready on
applications, and then "kill" tracker 0.6 .


> The only consideration here, is if we should port the config to the new 
> config and we could do that with some script I suppose.

 Yes, it is easy. I think that for the average user the really important
values there are WatchDirectoryRoots/IgnoreDirectoryRoots. 

Regards,

Ivan