[Developers] OpenLibraries 0.5 release checklist

[Tim Dewhirst]

Evening all,

Maik Nauheim wrote:
> Andrew Hunter schrieb:
>> I thought I would email the list to try and get some discussion started
>> on the release criteria for the upcoming 0.5 release. (It's going to
>> happen, I promise ;)
>>
>> As I see it what needs to happen is that
>>
>> 1) Test compilation on all platforms.
>>   
> We should consider how to test it... Test cases which sample media and 
> so on... I looked into a unit
> testing but postponed it to speed up a documentation system (And setting 
> up Documentation standards)

Ahead of unit testing i.e. with a framework, some kind of standard set 
of media that we know will load and can be transcoded would be a good start.

>> I can handle Ubuntu 8.04/8.10 on my own systems. OS X and win32 are up
>> to other people. (Maik and Tim?)
>>   
> At the moment I can't compile it. Maybe an error with my openefects or 
> one of the new activated modules..

What is the problem? I can compile from svn using cmake 2.6 okay on 
win32, admittedly with python turned off.

> Maybe we really should take a step backwards and concentrate on core 
> functionalities and postpone things
> like effects and hdr till we got the other things working reliable. Once 
> we reached this point we should firstly
> document it completely. This is the only posibility to get devs on 
> board. It  takes to much time to start searching
> around in the code. And no one is willing to use a library where is no 
> API docs availiable.

Sounds like a quite reasonable approach to me.

>> 2) Create compilation documentation for each of the platforms.
>>   
> agree

Also agree; I started placing notes in INSTALL, and I would suggest this 
is a good place to have simple instructions.

> Another thing that is very important to me is Version numbering.
> I will put up a new mail for this topic...

Tim