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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:22:02AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Hello Team Leads! :)
> >
> > I'd like you to comment on your progress for the items listed in our
> > 1.0 RoadMap[0] and let me know if your team is still on-target for our
> > October 13 release schedule.
> >
> > If there are any items that need to be added/removed/updated please
> > let me know (along with reasoning ;)) on the list and we can discuss
> > it.
>
> - Grimoire has converted the most popular (let's say 80% of the
>  grimoire) to the new compile/install system
> - All spells are lower-case and no upper-case spells exist in stable
>
> These are almost done, we're at 75% api2 in test grimoire (current
> stable slightly lower) and there's one uppercase spell left that hasn't
> been deprecated (see bug #8838 [1]).

perl-cpan has quite a few upper-case spells, though most of them are
deprecated with their lower-case cousins.

> - All spells use config_query instead of query and/or read.
> - All variables in spells should be defined as local (except for
>  config_query stuff)
>
> I'm not sure how to check that. Probably not all spells do that, but the
> most popular ones do now.

I'm pretty sure most spells now use config_query, but we could do some
greps and such for that.

For the local variables, I don't think many have done that.

> - Remove all duplicate dependencies
>
> I think this one should be removed from the roadmap. The recommended way
> now is to add all explicit dependencies to spells, whether they're
> duplicate or not.

True. Should we reverse the requirement instead of removing it and say
we should have explicit dependencies listed?

> - Updated Grimoire Guru's Handbook (Arwed von Merkatz)
>
> I _really_ hope I'll finally get to this soon. People have done a good
> start with the spell file description and the other documents in the
> drupal grimoire area, but it's definitely still incomplete.

Do you have a rough draft/layout that people can look at to help you
out?

> - Grimoire has less than 50 bugs open in stable grimoire with priority
>  P3 or higher
>
> And here's the big problem, we're not even close to that right now with
> 97 bugs in that list.
> There are quite some really old bugs in there, so a little testing might
> show that they're not valid anymore. Others are very broad stuff that
> we can't really fix without upstream fixing things, those will get a
> lower priority. Once I've cleaned up that list I'll let you know how
> close we are.

For everyone's enjoyment and hopefull possible help on these:
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=Codex&version=stable+grimoire&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&priority=P1&priority=P2&priority=P3&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

Thanks. :)

> [1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8838

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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