I am eagerly waiting for the stable release. When can we expect RC1 ?
When it's ready. :D
My first hope is mid-March, but I tend to feel it's a bit early... dunno.
Mid- March would be great, but I'm thinking more towards April 1st.
April 1st was my plan for final... O:-) :P
lol guys. :P
I was going to bump the version, but I faced an existential crisis:
@version 1.0 RC 1
or
@version 1.0 Release Candidate 1
Tough question...
I'm tempted to use the second just because it looks better in titles (e.g. help and ssi_examples), so we don't have exceptions, but the first is shorter and nicer...
Which one do you prefer? O:-)
Don't you have real polls here?
The first, as anyone looking at the code is probably a developer and knows what RC is. If they don't, they usually know how to use Google.
LOL .. Hey lets have a team vote :P
Are we just talking about the version in the script headers (don't want to bork pacman and the like) ... for the headers the release candidate looks a bit nicer ... like Beta 1 instead of B 1
Screw polls!
Never liked such silly method to take decisions. :-\
Script headers and for example the title attributes of the help files and ssi_examples.
But also $forum_version that at the moment uses Beta 2 I think.
I'm not sure how compareVersions would deal with it if the $forum_version was not RC, that uses alpha, beta, rc as far as I recall. The rest could use the nicer format with any issues.
i say second one to be different from norm
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/pull/1544
Is this ready yet?
I'd say its close, very close :D
There are a few more things that need to be tested / re checked. I also need to run the install scripts again, there was the report about not informing the user that we require the mysqli interface and I want to make sure that is in place. Couple of other old things on my list that should be cleaned up as well, I did a bunch of those over the last couple of days so just need to review that again.
emanuele and TE probably have their list of things to check as well.
We recently update the site to the latest, we like to run the site on the candidates for a few days to make sure there are no obvious issues that crop up.
already behind schedule ... posts say march and april and we now in may .... terrible ... I think I may go use mybb :P
/me runs before he gets lynched
Patience is a virtue. MyBB is nice, but if think MyBB's release cycle is any better... not really.
Mybb release schedule is horrible, just being honest. Not too mention all the mods you would need to just get to where Elkarte is at now.
/me kicks TrayBake
Well, actually Elk is already
way behind schedule LOL
The original idea was March last year, then we had a peak of activity, Norv started moving things all over the place, and after that another round of refactoring started and took almost the entire summer to finish.
Once beta was set the core has received only bug fixes (and few tweaks), but at some point there must be a release.
It's sad to say, but without a 1.0 out it's impossible to track more bugs in an acceptable time, we have to accept the idea that 1.0 will be buggy and will require some quick round of fixes. And also that it will not be perfect.
The important part will be to stay on top of the bug reports and fix them as fast as possible (and without introducing new ones LOL).
What, Wait, we had a schedule :P ...
Oh that right we did, but what we did not have was a fully understood scope of work, so we just went nuts! Yeah it had to be done but once you open up that can of worms with the needed refactoring, well you become a one legged man in an a s s kicking contest.
Well there is no such thing as bug free code. Look at all the ones that were fixed in Elk that were present in SMF, some of those had been there for 8+years, its just the nature of the beast, with may hands working on a project, and a large project as well, bugs are inevitable.
I do think some of the automated tests we put in place have helped improve the overall quality, the issues uncovered from those programs was pretty impressive.
Anyway to your point our bug discovery (vs enhancements) has slowed quite a bit so we need to continue on the release path as that will also increase usage and therefor test coverage under more configurations etc.
See the only thing perfect in the world is me :P and my ego
But I am sure you will beat the release of SMF 2.1 stable :D
TBH I just looked I cant find an official announcement about 2.1 except for blog posts :/
I think that's all you will find, since right now it is still in Alpha.
not quite true, a few months before I joined SMF Team they announced 2.0 when it was still alpha release :)
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=163438.0
I remember that post, as for 2.1 I haven't seen any.
none has been made, quite a shame really, the team over their wish to be more transparent yet they are starting to become quite opaque again. Their loss.
I agree, I think sooner or later they will release an announcement, hoping sooner.
Soooo...The version has been bumped in the code! O:-)
The code has been fixed here on the site, so the usual week of "real-life" testing and the it could be time for the RC release! :D
Congrats Team :thumbsup:
I'll test it soon, thanks ELK team!
...said two weeks ago. Where's the RC1? ???
Hidden behind a wall of bugs! :P lol
Joking... well, not much, there were "serious" bugs that have been fixed:
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/commit/050e471594b67ea1bd983ae7de2e3691e4641d5e (June 1st, undefined index)
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/commit/d2af5654bae4aa66fcc4e948b1ce72b95cb041b7 (June 1st, undefined index)
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/commit/e5bd23f8e1a8f1b2a6d50e6c0c08d3ed4c6c601c (June 2nd, error in uploading attachments when "paranoid" setting was enabled)
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/commit/589b18ffcc59a551eb2f773fb11ab4344417eea5 (June 7th, the option was removed, but the setting was still there)
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/commit/1a6868b88f2b4c36fc0d63dbdc2c2f54c35de5c7 (June 7th, deleting languages was broken)
Also, I just merged a quite huge change in the language strings that should be tested live here for at least some days (it's not yet live here, I may try to upload the files later today).
Now, at github there is just one "serious" bug:
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/issues/1616
This doesn't really require testing, so once the new language files are in place here and the bug above is fixed, the 1 week count down can start again. ;D
And, unless anyone finds any other serious bugs, RC1 may become reality. :D
It must! We have announced our migration! ;)