TheJackiMonster
commented
2 years ago First of all thank you for your contributions so far. But I think we need to make some parts clear: Currently all contributions are done by people voluntarily in their free time. Nobody gets paid which means the time people have to contribute is quite limited and varying. So that's why I don't think deadlines make much sense.
Even popular projects with full time developers like Godot or Blender usually try to make regular updates but they don't have planned deadlines to meet from my knowledge.
However I agree that it would help to know what needs to be done for a stable release. I would definitely start with the following points:
- We need reliable storage handling. Which means loading and saving files may not corrupt your projects! (Currently we add a big warning to the head of the releases page but that's no way to address the issues which still occur to some users.)
- We need the revisions fixed (or replaced with GIT or SVN as some people suggested) or we remove the old feature.
- We need to get the theme related crashes sorted out. So either way we get rid of Qt, we disable theming in Qt or someone fixes the issue in Qt or PyQt..?
- We probably want to have all installations to behave similar (feature parity and no weird issues as with the snap on Ubuntu at the moment, the macOS installation or the missing Windows installer).
I would definitely recommend to start with the potential data loss. Because as some users already mentioned on the website, this is unacceptable for professional usage and still very annoying for hobbyists. I also don't know if the theming issues offer any good solution really because all of the listed options have massive drawbacks. Installation issues mostly rely on the specific platforms and their requirements. So it's best if users from those platforms work on that.
AlanDunaway
EugeneUvin
Next version of Manuskript is 0.15. Are there any requirements for achieving stable version - 1.0?
My personal interest is that right now Ukrainian amateur writers society is growing, and thus this open source tool can be promoted among that demographic. I've translated UI to Ukrainian #1054 and reported translation issues #1052 ; also, I've got first report from an active writer on Ukrainian platform #1058 . For my goal of promoting it in Ukrainian, I'd need at least Windows installer working #1053 and maybe statistics done right for Ukrainian, and possibly I could translate the site to Ukrainian #1055 .
My suggestion is to discuss what are obstacles for releasing a stable version and what are project lead's requirements for it. I am open for having a video meeting to discuss these goals on any weekend and set deadlines. Anyone interested in this approach? Any objections to it? @TheJackiMonster @olivierkes ?