2.4.0, what's left to do

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 19 November 2010, John Ralls wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:48 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 November 2010, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >> On Monday 15 November 2010, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >>> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
> >>>> I am curious why 2.4 would be held up for a lack of compiled help
> >>>> under Windows. Help has NEVER worked for me under OS X, and it's
> >>>> always been a separate package in Linux. So why would this hold up the
> >>>> release for the REST of us?
> >>> 
> >>> Because it *was* working and broke, so it's a regression.
> >>> 
> >>>> David
> >>> 
> >>> -derek
> >> 
> >> I have committed a patch today for the Windows build system. This should
> >> fix the missing help on Windows. We'll see tomorrow when the next
> >> nightly build has run.
> >> 
> >> Geert
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> > 
> > The windows build has run successfully with my patch and includes the
> > documentation again.
> > 
> > This means the last remaining bug on the 2.4 list has been fixed.
> > 
> > Time for another release candidate ?
> > 
> > If that candidate doesn't reveal new issues, it can become 2.4.
> 
> Good.
> 
> Is everyone comfortable with [1] the bugs filed since the release of 2.3.16
> and [2] the 24 bugs reporting crashes? (I'm not wild about releasing with
> known crashers, but I'm willing to be overruled.)
> 
Other than the documentation bugs I just created, I agree with Christian what 
the outstanding bugs are concerned ;)

> Is the documentation ready? What about translations? We can do another RC
> without them, but they're needed for the actual release.
> 
I went through the documentation roughly and created bugs for each piece of 
documentation I found lacking or missing. Here's the list:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635357
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635360
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635361
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635363
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635365
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635366

And I may still have to fix a charset issue that popped up in the html 
documentation [1] while introducing the pdf generation code. I don't get this 
charset issue when I load the documenation from my local files, so it may be 
the way the server is configured is involved. I'll look into it one of the 
next days.

Regarding translations: there aren't many coming in at the moment. I am 
tempted to issue a formal call for translations on the devel and user list. 
This may catch the attention of (potential) translators that haven't been 
following our progress lately. It would be nice if we could release with more 
and more complete translations.

Geert

[1] http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/help/help.html and 
    http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/index.html