Re: How about NessusClient 1.2-beta1 release?

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:26, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > How about such a beta release?
> > What needs to be done for such a release?
>
> Dedicated my morning to testing HEAD, and I don't think we're close
> to a release yet. There are some regressions (ie: all the reports
> indexes are recomputed every time nessusclient is loaded, which is
> very slow if you use it to perform big scans), the GUI is very messy
> (a lot of items need to be resized -- the scan list hbox is way to
> wide compared to the scan configuration hbox which is 30 pixels wide
> here), and the memory usage is abnormally high (130M here).
>
> More effort needs to be done to make the GUI useable and to reduce
> the memory usage, then we can do a beta.  At the moment, doing a beta
> would be a diservice to the users since there are known showstopper
> with this program.

I am aware of these issues. Those are the ones that are on my list.
I would never release this status as "release candidate" - obviouly.
=46or me a beta is an intermediate state more or less close (ie feature=20
complete) to the next release. Known bugs are likely present.
=46inding unknown early is a good thing.

Another problem I would like to solve with a beta
is to make available the HEAD code so that interested people
can work on the code. As mentioned already, there is currently
no other way to get it (only exception are the people with
CVS write access).

Perhaps a source-code only release will do the job?

Any other way to make the current HEAD code base available
would also help. E.g. configuring ViewCVS to allow tar-ball download.

Best

	Jan

=2D-=20
Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner                                   Intevation GmbH
Amtsgericht Osnabr=FCck, HR B 18998             http://www.intevation.de/
Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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