Stabilizing 2.4.0

[Christian Stimming]

Am Samstag, 6. März 2010 schrieb John Ralls:
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> > Do we want to release a stable 2.4.0?  What do we need to finish to do
> > that.  There are lots of things happening in trunk, all of which will be
> > useful at some point, but many of which are destabilizing things.
> 
> My feeling from the users list says they want the dbi backend and the new
>  reporting made possible by WebKit, and that they'd like it soon. Maybe we
>  should ask them what they want.

That's my understanding as well.

However, dbi already comes with several variants: sqlite3 file, mysql 
bindings, postgresql bindings. Which one of those should work? All three?

So we need to make up lists of features new in 2.4 which need to be verified 
to work correctly:
- webkit reporting
- dbi backend with sqlite3 file
- dbi backend with mysql bindings
- dbi backend with postgresql bindings

There are additional new features, which might still have problems, so we can 
decide whether to disable them for 2.4 or test and fix them:
- eguile reports
- CSV importer (or was this active in 2.2.9 already?)
- QSF export (or was this active in 2.2.9 already?)
- Check printing features (but I think those work without problems)

(As you might have guessed, I need none of those features mentioned above. So 
I neither test them nor care about whether they are included in 2.4.0. But 
that's just my personal motivation here.)

Regards,

Christian