4.7 - a few questions and requests

[Willem Ferguson]

>From phone. I do not think  I own the user manual, but I have until next
Saturday (21st) to look at the user manual. But having neither an Apimage
nor a stable Ubuntu master complicates things. Will F22 still run the
latest version ? Kind regards, Willem

On 14 Oct 2017 21:48, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> During our layover on the way to Bonaire Linus and I were talking about
> the Subsurface release plans and he pointed out something painfully
> obvious. For most questions that we get these days, we simply point people
> at the latest test build. It's silly that we keep dragging our feet with a
> new release.
>
> What are the big challenges right now:
>
> Windows (~2/3 of our users): all seems to work well, except there's no BLE
> support
>
> Mac (~1/5 of our users): all seems to work, there continue to be
> occasional weird pairing problems, especially with Shearwater computers
>
> Linux (the rest of our users, about 1/7): oh boy. No working Ubuntu build,
> no working AppImage, Fedora and openSUSE appear ok
>
> So my suggestion would be that we cut a 4.7 this week, clearly state that
> Ubuntu and AppImage are missing, and try to close that gap as soon as we
> figure out how.
>
>
> My questions / requests:
>
> - are there any major regressions / massive bugs that I have forgotten
> about and that should prevent us from releasing 4.7?
> - what's the state of the user manual?
> - what's the state of the translations?
>
> It would be great if we could try to get translations and user manual at
> least looked at in the next few days, and hopefully some testing done with
> the test binaries that are up.
>
> If you own the manual (Willem - but many others contribute), or a
> translation, it would be great if you could respond to this email to state
> if you have a bit of time in the next few days that you could devote to
> this.
>
> I will spend as much time under water as possible, but while dry and awake
> will try to push this towards a releasable state.
>
> Thanks for everyone's help!
>
> /D
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