Re: [Vala] when will vala 0.8 be released?

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Jerry Tan wrote:
> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer :
> > Am Mittwoch, den 18.11.2009, 09:48 +0100 schrieb pancake:
> >  
> > > I hope not.
> > >
> > > 0.7.8 was released the past week and IMHO there are so many bugs,  
> > > patches to review before a new release. There are not so many 
> > > commits  these days and I dislike to see version bumps without so 
> > > many changes.
> > >     
> >
> > To be fair, this are not regression bugs, but bugs that have been there
> > since long.
Yep, I was not trying to blame Vala :P Just to show that most of the 
commits after
0.7.8 are related to .vapi and not the compiler itself.

I have about 15 test cases of invalid C code generated with partial 
patches waiting
to be reviewed and waiting to have more spare time to fix those bugs in 
a better
way (im learning the vala internals at train trips). This is why I am 
looking for the
vala hackaton.

> >  
> > > I think Vala core need more maintainers.
> > >     
> >
> > While that may be true as well, I think even more important would be a
> > split into -language and -bindings, since Vala bindings could and should
> > be more often released than Vala language.
> >   
> yes, I agree.
>
> split vala into vala-core and vala-bindings.
>
> or just like gstreamer,
> gstreamer project has gstreamer , gst-plugin-base, gst-plugin-good, 
> gst-plugin-bad.
>
> vala can also have vala-core, vala-binding-base, 
> vala-binding-experimental.

Yes, this takes sense, because vala-core and vala-bindings doesnt need 
to have the
same release ratio. And now that there are separated developers to 
maintain the
bindings it takes even more sense.
> > > Btw few weeks ago I got the idea about to organize bugfixing 
> > > hackaton  for vala. I think it will be good to specify a scheduled 
> > > hackaton  every N months via irc to fix as much bugs as possible, 
> > > learn  moreabout the language, the compiler internals, etc.
> > >     
> >
> > Splendid idea!
Any proposal for the initial date?

Who has commit rights on the vala-core? Because looks like juerg is the 
blocking, because
he has not much time and I have about 5 patches to be reviewed since two 
weeks ago,
and i'm waiting to have them in mainstream to continue fixing other bugs.

I understand that the patches must be reviewed before being included, 
but I also understand
that if the main developer is busy in other projects, but the community 
gets locked which is not good.

--pancake