Gnucash 1.8 proposed schedule (and HBCI status)

[Derek Atkins]

Well, the Backend API _NEEDS_ to be fixed before 1.7.1...  But I can't
think of any other major subsystem that _has_ to be fixed.

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> writes:

> What do people think about their planned features for a gnucash 1.8
> release, and how long it will take to complete them?
> 
> I'd like to post again the proposed schedule for a stable release
> *now*, that is, one that will be released with features that are ready
> at this point in time, and where more advanced features will be
> delayed until later versions of that release series. I guess each
> developer can decide for himself which feature belongs in which
> category. Proposed schedule:
> 
> Oct 13 Feature freeze, release 1.7.1-alpha
> 
> Oct 27 Total feature freeze, initial string freeze + initial translation
> work, release 1.7.2-alpha
> 
> Nov 10 Deep freeze = only bugfixes, String freeze, call for
> translations, release 1.7.3-beta
> 
> Nov 24 still Deep+string freeze, only reviewed bugfixes, release 1.7.4-beta
> 
> Dec 8 Release 1.8.0, or if needed another 1.7.5 release and 1.8.0 on Dec 22
> 
> I think we sould need to find some agreement on whether we want to
> follow this or another schedule, and we need to find/designate
> somebody who prepares the release tarballs. (I can't due to time
> constraints.) Chris Lyttle, would it be possible for you to prepare
> tarballs in a 1.7/1.8 series, since you already did a great job with
> the 1.6 releases? I think that starting to release alpha/beta tarballs
> of the upcoming new series will enable a whole new bunch of testers to
> jump in and try every cool new feature that we've been working on
> during the last 15 months.
> 
> For my part, the HBCI features are basically ready for testing. I
> finished the Setup druid, the Balance retrieval with account
> reconcile, the Transaction Retrieval by using the generic transaction
> import, and the transaction invocation. More work is needed to
> 
> - improve generic transaction import -- there are some issues that I
> need to discuss with Benoit, which will need another 10-20 h of work
> (but for basic testing this is already working well enough)
> - enable off-line queueing of HBCI jobs and add a menu item to execute
> all queued HBCI jobs in one shot -- nice to have but not essential to
> start the alpha releases (6h)
> 
> Christian
> 
> PS: Note that I'm out of town and away from email until Oct 14.
> 
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