[CREATE] Release Timetable

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 14.10.05, 22:13 +0200 schrieb Craig Bradney:

> On Friday 14 October 2005 16:39, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > Sorry for being silent. Internet connection at my new apartment will
> > appear only tomorrow and I don't have much time for reading gmail at
> > work :(
> >
> > On 10/14/05, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > > > > > I've just built Krita 1.4.2 and I'd like those colour palettes(
> > > > > > erm, sets, swatches.. ugh).. and either we copy them over to
> > > > > > Scribus 1.3.2cvs at some point, or will there be a release of a
> > > > > > compiled set of palettes/brushes etc in the near future?
> >
> > Please don't duplicate. Let's have a release first :)
> >
> > > > > Right, lets do this for the 0.01 release. Or, should we use this
> > > > > numbering scheme: 0.1.0. I think I would like to try this scheme as
> > > > > we can climb versions faster.
> > > >
> > > > 0.1.0 for sure. Despite a lot of people being aware of the version
> > > > number doesnt matter, the syndrome of anything not actually reaching a
> > > > 1.0 release exists.
> >
> > Yes, 0.1.0 would be better.
> >
> > Roadmap needs updates. We actually need agreeement of following topics:
> >
> > 1. The name or root directory. Should we simply count pro/contra
> > voices for each?
> >
> > 2. Which exactly resources do we package? E.g. there are at least 4
> > color swatches files that are not included anywhere: Ubuntu palette,
> > KDE palette, GNOME HIG palette and the newest shiny Tango palette.
> >
> > We need a reasonable decision about Cinepaint/GIMP similar resources
> > withe their bit depth difference (sorry about bringing this
> > potentially flaming topic back to life).

CinePaint has some naming sheme for the brushes:
some_brush_name_16.gbr - 16-bit integer
some_brush_name_f16.gbr - 16-bit float

This would make it easy to exclude such brushes. Is it correct that 
noone is going to use them outside Cinepaint itself?

> > I'm about to have plenty of spare time this weekend to sit down and
> > merge available resources into one root directory with some sexy
> > placeholder name and upload it for you :) Anyone, jbjections?
> 
> Unless its changed, Scribus includes the Gnome one. Either you indicate the 
> depth of the colours in the file (which breaks the "dumb list of data" idea 
> that the current palette files follow) , or split it by directory.
> 
> > 3. How we package release. I suggest packaging a tar.bz2 with a signature.
> >
> > 4. How we let packagers from FC/SuSE/Mandrake/Gentoo/Debian/Ubuntu
> > etc. know about release.
> >
> > 5. Whether we upload their packages as well.
> >
> > > > Scons? Those who know python might jump into this quickly. It looks
> > > > fairly simple to someone who doesnt know much python. Then again, a
> > > > simple Makefile isnt too bad either, as long as you avoid autotools. :)
> >
> > Both scons and makefile w/o autocrap is fine with me. Anyone, objections?
> 
> Either is fine for me, as long as autotools as avoided :)
> >
> > 6. Who will create Windows installer?
> >
> > > Yeah, does anyone want to build a Makefile to pull together our specs
> > > (please beat me to it). I don't see any reason for using autotools, as
> > > we are not really building cross-platform code, bur rather shared media
> > > and standards.
> > >
> > > Maybe we should have:
> > >
> > > /usr/share/XXXX/standards or
> > >
> > > /usr/share/XXXX/specs or
> > >
> > > /usr/share/XXXX/docs
> >
> > /usr/share/docs/XXXX-$VERSION
> 
> Why do we app programmers have to hack around versions? Just nuke the old 
> stuff and move on..

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Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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