[Xastir] Stable release timing?

[KC7ZRU]

Personally, and yes - I've a bit of 'tude here - I say we release on OUR 
schedule. If some distro or another - no matter how popular - gets 
something older due to their policies, that's not an Xastir problem.

Our developers work hard to make this thing work on it's own merits. 
They've gone beyond the extra mile to help ensure it compiles on Cygwin 
(Windows), OS-X, many flavors of Linux and who knows what else. To try 
and add another administrative 'goal' to accommodate the whims of a 
specific distro. Well, I think that's just plain silly.

Maybe if they were our major channel - but I sure don't think they are.

And yes, it's been a tough day, I'm cranky and dinner isn't ready - yet 
and there's too much water in my wine...

73

Rick Green wrote:
> Well, Debian etch just released, and (K,X)Ubuntu will release next week.
> 
> I just saw a note giving the release schedule for the *Next* release of 
> Ubuntu, codenamed 'Gutsy Gibbon', to be released this October.
> 
> The process of producing an Ubuntu release begins by snapshotting the 
> Debian Unstable repository, which will happen automatically until June 
> 21st, which is declared the 'Debian Import Freeze'
>   A month or so ago, I tracked down the Debian maintainer of the xastir 
> package, and learned that he rebuilds the package whenever the project 
> releases a new 'stable' version.
>   Considering the ease of installation with apt-get, and the popularity 
> of Ubuntu (and now, its derivatives), I would give a high priority to 
> making sure that what is declared 'stable' at the time of the next 
> snapshot is actually that, plus is equipped with a newbie-friendly 
> default configuration.  The last snapshot (In November or December '06), 
> had the unfortunate habit of opening into a tiny (1/2" x 1/2") window, 
> and even after manually expanding it, showed no obvious path to a 
> workable config. The current CVS has these problems fixed, and opens 
> with a simple line-drawing world map in the background, and the 'station 
> config' dialog open, which is several orders of magnitude greater on the 
> 'newbie-friendly' scale!
>   Can we get a new 'Stable' polished in time to have a better showing 
> for the next distribution cycle?
>   The one outstanding glitch I see is the lesstiff/openmotif issue. 
> Ubuntu ships by default with lesstif2, due to what they consider 
> less-than-open licensing of openmotif.  Clearly, there's a bug in the 
> current lesstif2 library, but I can't find it documented in the ubuntu 
> bug tracker.  Can I get some help describing this bug, so I can 
> effectively push it upstream, and get it polished as well before the 
> next release?
>