[dev] Release plan

[Dominic Ijichi]

Quoting Roel Gloudemans <roel at gloudemans.info>:

> I like the tabs. It could be a useful feature to add to the interface. The
> "iconbar" on top now contacts icons which call up other pages (e.g. in IMP
> Inbox; Folders; Options) and icons which call up popup windows (e.g. Help;
> Compose (depends on setting))

i think it's always worked like this, if i understand what you're saying.
 
> We could make the Icons that call up other pages within the same application
> show up as tabs and the icons that call popups as icons.

fundamentally, this has nothing to do with icons, but of menus and menu levels.
 i intensly dislike 'popup' windows, so my hack of this old codebase removed the
ability to popup a compose window and forced it into a tab.  things like help
buttons are, I presume, a context sensitive popup that therefore doesn't belong
in the menu system.  at the time I hacked this old code the help system wasn't
really working anyway, so i left it out..  IMHO, menu choices shouldn't popup
new windows, although this may occasionally be acceptable for random interface
buttons (such as a help button).  i think this is sort of what you're implying..
 
Jan has recommended I wait until at least RC before rehacking, so I'll start
playing when a beta arrives, and see what happens :)

dom

> This also means that the icons should be sorted before displaying, to
> make sure
> that there is an unbroken row of tabs.
> 
> How does this sound?
> 
> Cheers,
> Roel.
> 
> > I use a really heavily hacked version of Horde/Imp taken from CVS a
> > year or two
> > ago when work started on Horde3/IMP4.  I still find it much nicer to use
> than
> > the current versions interface-wise and would like to apply my
> > facelift to the
> > current codebase to bring it back to current.
> >
> > But it was quite a hack the first time round and might involve some
> > code change,
> > is this the right time to do it, or wait until a beta/RC is released?
> >
> > Screenshots here:
> > http://willow.ijichi.org/imp/
> >
> > dom
> >
> > Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> >
> >> So, this is my release plan:
> >>
> >> Note that this matters only for the applications of the first release
> round,
> >> i.e. Horde, IMP, Turba, Ingo, Chora, Kronolith, Nag, and Mnemo.
> >>
> >> I'm going to release the BETA versions next week. We will then enter the
> >> "major feature freeze mode". That means that only bug fixes and small
> >> feature enhancements and completions are allowed to be committed.
> >>
> >> After one to two weeks I'll start the release candidate phase. Release
> >> candidates will be released once per week until we think they are stable
> >> enough to release the final versions. During this period we are in
> complete
> >> feature freeze mode, i.e. only bug fixes, documentation and translations
> are
> >> allowed to be committed.
> >>
> >> I reconsidered the original branching plan and will now try to avoid
> >> branching as long as possible, ideally until the final releases, for two
> >> reasons: To avoid the hassle of merging as long as possible, and to force
> >> us to spend our time on bug fixes. This goes a bit beyond the nature of
> >> volunteer oss development but this phase will only last for a few weeks
> and
> >> we won't get the releases out of the door in this life otherwise.
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >>
> >> Jan.
> >>
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