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

[John Ralls]

Christian,

Not *quite* so fast: That's contingent on you confirming that you've gotten that positive feedback by then.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Aug 24, 2019, at 2:27 AM, Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de> wrote:
> 
> 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>:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
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