Release of 0.18

[yorik]

Shall we make some progress on fixing Crowdin ?

What do you mean?

[Kunda1]

What do you mean?

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 10#p284737

[triplus]

Note that as FreeCAD 0.18 release likely isn't imminent, still some work left to do, i will prepare a PR (in February) that should improve overall icon themes support in FreeCAD 0.18.

P.S. If there are any objections, or if a release happens before that, i can still target this work for FreeCAD 0.19.

[abdullah]

The remaining [For 0.18] PRs are quite large ones, and actually too complex for me to review given my limited programming skills. So they are basically on Werner's shoulders only, unless someone else volunteers to help reviewing them. He has actually merged several of them recently, so I guess those are on his todo list too. But the task is huge, so it takes time, and as the FreeCAD motto says, it's done when it's done...

No problem, by year 2300 I might able to do Werner's task of reviewing.

On a related topic: Do we know exactly what is missing to release 0.18? What is holding the release back?

[Kunda1]

On a related topic: Do we know exactly what is missing to release 0.18? What is holding the release back?

Translations
Fixing the remaining issues in crowdin
I'm tracking that via https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 75#p280243

PR is at https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/1961

[NormandC]

What is holding the release back?

Well for one thing, adding new features even though we're supposed to be in feature freeze since like past November...

[Jee-Bee]

i didn't see a message about feature freeze at all!
That's exactly the info i miss (sometimes) from the main developers. info in what state we are is there a feature freeze, what bug are need te resolve before a new release, what steps have to be taken etc.

[NormandC]

There was no official freeze announcement. It was more or less informally agreed upon, I'd say. Since early December there has been repeated "what's missing for a 0.18 release?" posts here. A release implies a feature freeze... But as I wrote, there hasn't been much discipline in that area. But I'm not criticizing, just stating fact.

That's exactly the info i miss (sometimes) from the main developers. info in what state we are is there a feature freeze, what bug are need te resolve before a new release, what steps have to be taken etc.

This could be improved. For now, we can only monitor this topic. A single page (on the forum or the wiki, or the tracker?) that is kept up to date with all the relevant info would help, but who would maintain it?

You can have a look at the tracker's roadmap: https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/roadmap_page.php

[yorik]

i didn't see a message about feature freeze at all!
That's exactly the info i miss (sometimes) from the main developers. info in what state we are is there a feature freeze, what bug are need te resolve before a new release, what steps have to be taken etc.

The situation is not that bad... This time we managed to concentrate it all here in one thread, and (almost ) everybody was informed of the feature freeze... Sorry you hadn't seen it, next time we can think of something better...

On a related topic: Do we know exactly what is missing to release 0.18? What is holding the release back?

For me, it could be done now, I don't think there is any more showstopper bug (@Kunda1, I don't think we can solve all our translation issues before 0.18 otherwise it'll take many years more...). I guess we need the opinion of our Grand Master of the Code

[kkremitzki]

If it's nearly time, then it's probably best to say, it's time. If anything important is missed it can be addressed in 0.18.1.