Re: [Gretl-devel] time for 1.9.8?
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote:
On 02/24/2012 04:22 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>
> * Major new functionality: Well, if we're talking C code, then at
> present that means stuff that Jack and I will produce. I put my view
> on this at the 2011 gretl conference: I think we now have a good
> enough baseline that people ought to be able to add functionality to
> gretl in the form of function packages and "addons".
I think that the "addon" feature alone is enough to justify a 2.0
version, because it fundamentally changes the way how gretl can receive
new functionality. This would be easy to communicate to old and new
users. As I see it, it is now in a state of beta testing, and calling
the version 2.0 would constitute the claim that it's reasonably stable.
And documented, see below.
Good point, I like it.
> * Purge of bugs and update/completion of documentation: Here I
can
> really get on board. One conception of gretl 2.0 is that it has
> achieved a degree of maturity where we have squashed as many bugs as
> we can find on an extended period of testing, and have documented in
> a reasonably comprehensible and cross-referenced form all that the
> program can do.
@bugs: I don't see how we will find bugs at an accelerated rate. Feature
freeze/extended testing is probably good because it means no new bugs.
For my part, coding time has to be divided between new stuff and bug
fixing. So the less new stuff that's going on, the more time for
fixing.
@documentation: Here I would suggest some kind of realistic deadline
and
individual commitments to certain missing parts. What do I mean by
realistic: in my case probably not before July (sorry! -- but it would
be a commitment).
Any suggestion for a realistic deadline?
Allin