Stabilizing 2.4.0

[Phil Longstaff]

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 11:41 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
> 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.)

CSV is new in 2.4
QSF export was in 2.2.9, but never used it, so I don't know how well it
worked.

Phil