[GNC-dev] German online banking users would need a 3.7 release before mid-September...

[Christian Stimming]

Dear John, that sounds definitely good. So the Release of end of September will be scheduled earlier for Sept 7th and that’s it. Thanks a lot!

Regards, Christian 

> Am 23.08.2019 um 23:42 schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:
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>> On Aug 23, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Am Donnerstag, 22. August 2019, 21:57:30 CEST schrieb John Ralls:
>>>> On Aug 11, 2019, at 11:43 AM, Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de>
>>>> wrote:> 
>>>> Am Samstag, 10. August 2019, 20:32:00 CEST schrieb John Ralls:
>>>>> Regardless, we can do a snap release as soon as we can get the
>>>>> registration
>>>>> number issue sorted and I can make time to do the release.
>>>> 
>>>> The windows nightly has built last night. On gnucash-de I asked
>>>> windows-users to start testing it. Let's see whether this is indeed
>>>> sufficiently implemented. Once some positive feedback has arrived, a 3.7
>>>> release sometime in August would indeed be great - as it fits best for
>>>> you.
>>> 
>>> Christian,
>>> 
>>> Has there been sufficient testing to proceed with a release this weekend?
>> 
>> Dear John,
>> 
>> to be honest, I still haven't received the definitive feedback that the 
>> current git/maint code has fixed the various bank server complaints. Hence, I 
>> think a release is not really suited for this weekend. Maybe next weekend, but 
>> as I said, there hasn't been the really clear feedback that current maint 
>> really fixes all issues there.
>> 
>> Current maint already contains a number of improvements over the last release 
>> for sure, but this is fortunately true for almost all points in time. But for 
>> the online banking things we are not yet sure that this really fixes the most 
>> important issue. I'll keep you posted. Thanks!
> 
> Christian,
> 
> Since the whole point of the snap release is to get the FinTS product registration feature to German users we should indeed make sure that it works before releasing it.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm fully engaged next weekend so the release may have to wait until the following weekend, September 7. I don't think there's much point in doing another release 3 weeks later so we'll just call it the regular release and delivered early.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>