The Taskmaker Returneth

In the interest of getting some progress, I thought I'd try to set
some dates and distribute some tasks, since this has seemingly worked
in the past ;)

Judging from the recent (lack of) activity, I think any tight
deadlines may be unrealistic, so I suggest Octoper 31st as the
deadline for release 0.2a0. This should be as bug-free as we can make
it, for all back-ends (or all that we decide to release in the a0).
Hopefully, the remaining alphas should mainly consist of functionality
additions.

To finish 0.2a0, we need, first of all, to test the back-ends (and the
front-end) to discover bugs and problems. So... Here is a suggested
list of testers (for 0.2a0):

====================================
Back-end           Testers
------------------------------------
beosgui .......... Matt
cursesgui ........ Joe
gtkgui ........... Kalle, Dallas
javagui .......... Magnus, Shanky
mswgui ........... Thomas, Magnus
qtgui ............ Dallas, Shanky
textgui .......... Joe
tkgui ............ Magnus, Joe
wxgui  ........... Patrick, Magnus
====================================

This list is rather random and arbitrary (guided by the list of
developers responsible for the various back-ends). Where I have listed
two developers, both should do the tests. (If one has already checked
in his results in admin/status.txt, the other should confirm the
results.)

Deadline for first round of testing: 2002-10-18 (in one week).
If anyone finds this is problematic, please email me.

Those not listed above are certainly still encouraged to test, probe,
and hunt for bugs as well. And, of course, _fixing_ bugs is even
better than just _finding_ them :)

So -- in one week I expect we have a picture of what works and what
doesn't (and perhaps what shouldn't). And in about three weeks
(October 31st) we will hopefully release 0.2a0.

BTW: For PR reasons it might be a good idea to name this first alpha
0.2a1, and then increment the other three -- any opinions on that?
Just a thought.

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland        Practical Python          The Anygui Project
http://hetland.org        http://ppython.com        http://anygui.org


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