[Chandler-dev] 0.7.2 status

[Philippe Bossut]

Forgot to mention: we'll have a 10am Bug Council on #chandler tomorrow 
morning to check bug status and decide on RC2.

Cheers,
- Philippe

Philippe Bossut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've been very busy this last week qualifying 0.7.2 and sorting bugs 
> on RC1. We should be ready to spin an RC2 sometime tomorrow as soon as 
> we can put to rest the last blocking bug (Bug 11202 : Debug build 
> crashes on first attempt to open repository created by end-user build 
> for same version).
>
> So, clearly, we're going to miss the stated date for release 
> (tomorrow). The current ETA right now is Friday, time required to 
> build and so some QA qualification of the remaining fixed but not yet 
> verified bugs.
>
> Note that, contrarily to 0.7.1 which went very smoothly from branching 
> to release with no bug patched on the branch, this one has been 
> bumpier with several bugs blocking and patched on the branch:
>
> Bug 10903 : We should include the .deb download link on the linux 
> download page
> Bug 11048 : doesn't install on windows XP (actually doesn't launch) - 
> need to set PYTHONHOME
> Bug 11176 : make install vs distrib and Chandler-en.po
> Bug 11178 : If you try to quit while chandler is restoring shares it 
> will hang stopping twisted
> Bug 11186 : File-Reload throws RepositoryOpenDeniedError and crashes app
> Bug 11229 : Debug build of r15668 will not start - PyAssertionError
> Bug 11232 : KeyError on deleting collections in the sidebar
> Bug 11240 : l10n breakage in compact() UI
>
> Not surprising for a release that has much more new code and features 
> than 0.7.1 but a cautionary tale for 0.7.3 with the several dev 
> branches ready to be merged (script_recording, multiweekview and 
> leopard). If you're working on those dev branches, please make sure QA 
> has been involved in testing some branch build *before* merging so 
> that we don't scramble fixing bugs on the trunk. Also remember that 
> the landing day for 0.7.3 (current trunk) is 11/14, i.e. *next 
> Wednesday*.
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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