Re: [Gnash-dev] release thoughts

[Markus Gothe]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Rob Savoye wrote:

> Well, at one point I thought we had mostly implemented and stabilized
> everything we wanted for this release except for fixing the font
> problem. Now that video support has been added, Gnash has been
> destabilized. As glad as I am to see this video support, we need to come
> to a simple decision about the supposed release.
>
> As I see it, we can do one of two things:
>
> 1. Make a CVS snapshot from Thursday, make this a release branch, fix
> what we need to there, and release that as 0.7.2. We'd release the video
> support officially in the following release.
>
Yepp, this is in my opinion the right thing to do... My vote goes for this
one.

> 2. Focus on beating these new changes into shape, delay the release for
> several weeks, and release 0.7.2 with working video support.
>
>   I guess I'm curious what other folks think. It has been 6 months since
> the last release, and Gnash has made good progress. Many distributions
> only ship official releases, so most are still using the 0.7.1 alpha
> release.
>
Indeed, I think we should have 0.7.2 released ASAP, so we gain market
shares. Especially since thursday has got pretty good AGG-support.

>   So Gnash folks, what are your thoughts on this ?
>
//Markus