[GNC-dev] Release Schedule

[Christopher Lam]

Oh and also:

I'll wish to transition *all* html-acct-table based reports to force them
to do subtotals properly.

There are currently 9 different combinations for subtotals while displaying
accounts, depending on the Display settings "parent account balances" and
"parent account subtotals"; the 'canonically-tabbed' option should be
deprecated; and either parent account include children-account subtotals,
or parent subtotals displayed after their children group. i.e. 9
combinations reduced to 2 options.

I'll hope this can be achieved for 4.0.


On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 03:07, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi John
> My plans for 4.0 will be
> - remove *all* deprecated exported functions and deprecated code paths
> - enable book-accounting-period preference
>
> I'd urge anyone with custom reports will observe the console or tracefile,
> and watch for any scheme deprecation warnings while running latest versions
> of GnuCash -- old functions are due a major cleanup. If there are, please
> let us know via devel or bugzilla (and attach custom report).
>
> On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 19:12, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>> Back in the run-up to releasing GnuCash 3.0 when we adopted the two-digit
>> release numbering we also said that we wanted to accelerate the major
>> release tempo to 2-3 years instead of the 4 years that had gone between the
>> previous several major releases.
>>
>> Well, it's two years later. We've added almost 1500 commits, but they've
>> all been to the maint branch. There are a few low-effort changes on the
>> table that would fit better into a new stable series, including more report
>> system updates from Chris Lam and the report menu rearrangement Geert
>> surfaced last week.
>>
>> The first alternative is to finish those up, merge them onto master, and
>> release 4.0 in December as we optimistically planned 2 years ago. Along
>> with that change we'd bump the C++ standard requirement to 14 so that we
>> can use initializer lists correctly. That will require GCC 5.0 or Clang
>> 3.4, which would raise the baseline distros to Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9, Mint
>> 18, and Fedora 25. RHEL/Centos users would need to install devtoolset-7 or
>> devtoolset-8. OpenSuSE users would need to install one of the GCC upgrade
>> packages. MacOS minimum would bump to 10.10 (Yosemite). MSYS2's toolchain
>> is consistently bleeding-edge so Windows builds wouldn't be affected.
>>
>> The second alternative is to revert to the 4-year major release tempo,
>> continuing the current 3.x stable series until the end of 2021 and hoping
>> that we've made sufficient progress on the major goals by then.
>>
>> The third alternative is to not have a fixed major release schedule at
>> all and instead to wait until the goals set out in
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule#Goals_for_4.0 are
>> completed.
>>
>> Geert and I, having discussed this on IRC, are inclined toward the first
>> alternative because it allows us to update the minimum versions of several
>> dependencies.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
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