1.7.0 release infos

Here are the rough infos (CHANGES in 1.7 repo has more detail level):

The basic idea is to make a 1.7 release rather soon after 1.6.0 (so 1.6 is not as long lived as 1.5), because:

• maintaining too many branches in parallel costs lot of effort
• getting the SOC 2007 work and some other major work out before SOC 2008 begins

Thus: do not put any major new code into 1.7 branch, but rather work on improving existing code there

TODO

• translators, please see MoinDev/Translation for 1.7 todo

Testing needed

Please see the linked pages for details and help testing (esp. if you have an environment not tested yet).

• test MoinMoinBugs/AttachmentUploadLeaksMemory

• test 1.7 fix for MoinMoinBugs/TitleSearchDoesNotWorkWhenPageNameIsLowerCaseCharactersOneWord and MoinMoinBugs/RegexSearchMissesPagesWhichStartWithLowerCaseLetter

• test 1.7 fix for MoinMoinBugs/1.6.3FullSearchWithXapianForCategory

Done

• port internal macros to the new macro argument framework /ListOfMacros

• MoinMoinBugs/AttachmentDownloadsSlowAndConsumeTooMuchMemory

Not TODO

• user settings converter for "want_trivial" checkbox to "TrivialPageChangedEvent"?

  • I think most users don't have want_trivial enabled and the few who have it can just adjust their userprefs manually. Thus, I won't write a converter for this, but if someone wants to contribute one, feel free. -- ThomasWaldmann 2008-05-02 11:26:48

• xapian search can be disabled by using a re:whatever search term.

Release plan (just a vague idea, no guarantees!)

• 2008-01 after 1.6 is released, forward port all 1.6 changesets that are not yet in 1.7 branch

• 2008-03-15 major feature freeze

• 2008-04-01 feature freeze

• 2008-04 beta release(s) / translators catch up

• 2008-05 release candidates

• 2008-06 more release candidates, release 1.7.0

• create 1.8 branch when we really need it

How you can help

• test 1.7 (you can get it from http://hg.moinmo.in/ any time, using mercurial or just downloading the tar)

• help finding and fixing bugs