4.7 - a few questions and requests

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:00:34PM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> 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

The way I use the term "own" a part of Subsurface is in the sense of
maintainership. Robert "owns" the planner. Linus "owns" a good chunk of
the core code including, for example, the gas handling. Tomaz "owns" the
Qt UI.

None of that means that no one else does (or should) work on it - it's
that I look to that person as the one to coordinate and push a certain
part of what we do.

And as you know, I tend to look to you for the user manual :-)


Latest master builds fine on a reasonably recent Ubuntu. See the
discussion in the other thread. I'm pretty sure that 16.04 will work.
17.04 definitely does.

The big problem is packaging for Launchpad.

Fedora 22, unfortunately, is long gone as supported platform. But F26
should be perfect as that even has a packaged version that you could just
install.

Thanks

/D

> 
> 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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