[Swfdec] as branch progress report

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy]

Sorry list. Should have pressed reply to all instead of reply.

On 6/18/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Benjamin Otte <otte at gnome.org> wrote:
> > Since there seem to be quite some people hacking on the as branch, I'd
> > like to give some report about its progress. So if you encounter
> > regressions after a git pull, you know where to look (or who to ask).
>
> [snip]
>
> I'm reading them. It would take some time for me to digest it.
>
> >
> >
> > So, after all of this, I have some questions to all of you:
> > 1) Should I start doing releases of 0.5, even though it's definitely
> > less stable, probably has regressions and gets lots of active surgery?
> > Doing releases is work, so I'd like to have people requesting them.
>
> No. 0.5.0 should have a target. Maybe ability to play youtube ;-) (or
> metacafe, google video, some lovely games... you add here) , reach
> stability of 0.4.x, more comprehensive test suites or whatever.
>
> > 2) If I start doing releases: At what point should 0.5 be advertised
> > to distros as preferred to 0.4? Can you think of any guidelines or
> > should we just throw 0.5 at them and deal with the bugs?
>
> /me no idea
>
> > 3) This is for all the people hacking on the as branch: Have the
> > regressions introduced by my surgery caused you problems and would you
> > prefer me doing them in branches? Should I do more testing before
> > pushing it? I made sure the testsuite passes, so it wasn't untested
> > code. However, the testcode seems to be not good enough yet for these
> > kinds of problems...
>
> I think we still need a way to test visual output. Without that we are
> unable to test movies, shapes, drawing API... Good test suites should
> catch them all :)
> I don't mind working with your latest surgeries (I could branch it off
> from a good commit anyway). But I would prefer small, incremental
> patches than one big patch.
>
> > 4) Is anybody reading these mails? Should I do this more often?
>
> Definitely.
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Benjamin
> >
> >
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_%28computer_science%29
> --
> Duy
>


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Duy