Re: Preparing for 1.7 release

Dear Russell,
you wrote:
> I have now manually converted the change log to release notes. AFAIK  
> the release notes should now be up-to-date.
That looks great to me.  I'd humbly appreciate if my 
name would be mentioned in the 1.7 acknowledgment 
section ...
> I note, however, that we   now have 12 disabled tests. > This makes me very uncomfortable. I would  
> like to place a priority on fixing those - ahead of addressing any new  
> bug reports, patches, or RFEs; however, as long as we are going to do  
> that, I see no reason that we shouldn't release 1.7 ahead of that.   
The priority setting is fine with me - we could even 
show the priority in the disabled message by adding a 
parameter. Also we could not show a message at all for 
those tests that have to do with the javascript engine. 
To avoid the counting of theses fully disabled tests 
we'd e.g. have to refactor the tests with the Junit 
"suite" approach.
> There are some other interesting things that have been happening that  
> we should discuss, process-wise; again, I think we can put those off  
> until after the release.
O.k.
> The one big issue that I see is that jdk 1.4 compatibility is broken.  
> We get 36 broken tests, which seems to be related to some changed  
> interfaces. I know that I had gotten that working in the past, and am  
> not sure when it broke. That needs to be the top priority, as we  
> cannot release without it. I am not prepared to drop 1.4 support at  
> this time.
All of my customers have switched to 1.5. My main 
product smartGENERATOR does not support 1.4 any more so 
personally this not much of an issue for me - how about 
our users base - what percentage do you estimate is 
still interested in 1.4?
> What else do we need to do before the release?
The Tutorial and examples have not been worked on much 
yet and unfortunately the people having offered to work 
on it have resigned at least for a few months again.
I think we should mention that we'd appreciate 
volunteers working on the improvement and that tutorial 
improvements are as worthwhile as code improvements.

Yours
  Wolfgang

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