[Xastir] ATTENTION: Preparing for next release: Please thrash on the code

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 07:15:52AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Anyone else have any reports, good or bad?
> 
> FWIW: For the types of things I do the latest code has been stable for me.
> 
> We're getting close to a release and Tom will most likely be the one doing
> it. No target date has been mentioned. If we run into any nasty bugs that
> might delay.

Let's set a date right now.  I can set aside the time to do the release
on only a few days in the upcoming weeks (it doesn't take long, but it's
a process that takes some attention, and is documented in README.developers.md).

The days I could do it are:
  Friday, 31 May
  Friday, 14 June
  Sometime on the weekend of 21-23 June.

I think that we are already at a point where there has been sufficient time
to shake out the code on master, and we could release today if we wanted
to.  Next friday is the earliest I have the opportunity to spend on it.

If someone else wanted to try out the release process, it's all documented
in gory detail in README.developers.md, and if followed precisely would 
produce a new release that would be ready (down to file names of tarballs)
to slot into the package creation processes various distros use, just by
changing the version number.  Or pick a date and I'll do it then.

> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 6:16 PM Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've played with it some and and have not found any issues. I put together
> > a BPQ packet node in January, and I haven't fully back-filled what I had
> > "stolen" from aprs, so testing capability is fairly limited.  From what I
> > can tell, though, it's nice and stable.
> >
> > I do have a few questions about the source ( yeah, always one in the crowd
> > :-) )
> >
> > - In dlm.c noticed references to "curl-multi" and evidently the capability
> > to leverage parallel downloading of map tiles as supported by libcurl. Is
> > whether or not that is supported in our platform based on what version of
> > curl is installed?
> >
> > - now that dlm.c handles downloading tiles, is there anything left in
> > tile_mgmnt.c that is still needed or could tile_mgmnt.h and tile_mgmnt.c be
> > removed?  It seems at a minimum the "getOneTile" portion of tile_mgmnt.c is
> > no longer needed.
> >
> > Looks like you guys are doing a lot of cleanup in this release, so brought
> > that up just in case there's some stuff there that could be streamlined a
> > bit.
> >
> > Fyi, my Odroid XU4 (arm based) beats the pants off my Intel Celeron based
> > laptop in terms of map download speed.  Both are on Ubuntu 18.04 with the
> > MATE desktop. Am wondering if the fact that the XU4 has an octa-core cpu
> > makes a difference with respect to curl-multi.
> >
> > The cleaner compiling is very noticeable, and the earlier note about newer
> > compilers spitting out more warnings matches what I saw.  Compiling is
> > cleaner in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu 16.04 than it is in Ubuntu 18.04, but
> > it still builds fine.  (And even in Ubuntu 18.04 the new code still
> > compiles a lot cleaner that the older code did)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lee
> > K5DAT
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:57 AM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > We're planning to do a release within a few weeks. It might be as few as
> > 2
> > > weeks.
> > >
> > > Please check out / compile / thrash on the latest Github Xastir code.
> > Find
> > > anything that broke with our latest code fixes. Exercise all types of
> > > interfaces, messaging, bulletins, weather stations, tracking, following
> > > stations, maps, etc. Anything you can think of.
> > >
> > > The latest code compiles much cleaner and a lot of fixes went in to make
> > > that possible. We'd like this release to function well, so whatever you
> > can
> > > do to exercise the code would be most appreciated.
> > >
> > > If you find a bug or odd operation, report it here:
> > >
> > >   https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Curt, WE7U        http://we7u.wetnet.net
> > > http://www.sarguydigital.com
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
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