[Lazarus] Linux Journal article

[Vincent Snijders]

Andrew Brunner schreef:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Vincent
> Snijders<vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl> wrote:
>> I'd rather not release a product that destroys files, even it looks great:
>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14167
>> and maybe:
>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13931
> 
> True.  Nobody wants their code deleted.  But with good Q/A an interim
> release could be flagged for critical bugs to be resolved prior to
> kicking off any release.  And you could argue that at least one of
> those bugs justifies a critical flaw that needs to be addressed prior
> to the kick off.

I fear I cannot follow you. Since two months or so, we want to make a release. We 
have identified critical bugs and regressions that we want to resolve before the 
release and marked them with the 0.9.28 target. Do you say we should start a release 
anyway, even if it these critical issue have not been fixed? What do you mean by 
"kick off".

> Bug tracking should be able to report all critical flaws and be
> cleared out by the community.  Could actually speed things along if
> you think about it.
> 


Goto http://bugs.freepascal.org/view_all_bug_page.php, select the Lazarus project 
and choose the "target 0.9.28" filter/

> Take the present opportunity, for example as if we did have interim releases.
> 
> Someone suggests interim release.
> 
> Automated system checks for critical flaws.
> 
> Emails go out to mailing list regarding laws that are blocking an
> interim release.  Pleading with the community that hey... We help with
> these two things... Please help... you get the point...  An escalation
> of awareness to the community as time goes on...
> 
> Just my thoughts on how to make things better...

Please, provide patches for the remaining 10 0.9.28 issues and we start release 
building tomorrow.

Vincent