RELEASE 4 pre-alpha-5

Related

RELEASE_SCHEDULE
Release team working process

Tasks for testing

Urgent Goals

Before 2009-04-17 we need to achieve the following:

• product
  • repository branching
  • Gaining functionality needed for the third release as stated by the schedule
  • tuning
  • bugs to fix
  • things to remove
  • things to disable
  • files to download
  • final delivery

• documentation
  • download page
  • release documentation
  • user documentation
  • installation instructions

Documentation

Download Page

Release Document

• Skinning
  • Default Skin
  • Alternative Skin
• Application Help
• Resource list filters
• Resource change list
• Book Templates base support
• Page Templates (as resource)
• Internal definition of Sophie Book File Format
• Page zooming
• Page property editing
• Frame rotation
• From previous releases
  • Links
  • Resource Manipulation
• Next release early prototype
  • Printing

User Documentation

• This should be the documentation for all features available in the released downloadable. This includes new features, old features and updates done to them. This way we could iteratively form the final user docs.
• Currently at ITERATION_07/Release/UserDocumentation

Installation Instructions

• installation instructions (MAC/Windows/Linux). Mac java tweaking instructions.

Product

IMPORTANT

Always write where is the result of the task you completed. This would be the changeset with thorough commit comment for coding and a link to the wiki page for a document.

Repository Branching

The Branch was made - branches/release04-pre-alpha-5

Promised Features

• Skinning
  • Default Skin
  • Alternative Skin
• Application Help
• Resource list filters
  • Filter by names
  • Switch buttons/checkboxes/other.
• Resource change list
• Book Templates base support
• Page Templates (as resource)
• Internal definition of Sophie Book File Format
• Page zooming
  • Not woeking in preview.
  • Page resize halo button
• Page property editing
• Frame rotation
  • Move rotation to the model
  • Fix defaults.
  • Move rotated frame
  • Position and size of the HUD and halos are bad.
  • Behavior when aligning rotated frames.

Release Tuning

• Fix the about dialog to be pre-alpha-5

Bugs to Fix

• The MyDoggy library has initialization problems and is breaking skins.
• The link halo shows with multiple selected items.
• Background & Border hud does not function properly with multiple selected frames but appears for the selection.
• No moving of multiple selected items(frames).
• Add as template halo on multiple selected items works strange.
• Text content is resetting (probably it is view only)
• The text is not prining.
• The reader page work area is not clipping the frames outside of the page.
• Some porperties are not templated or templating features are not user editanble(Background).
• The names of the books appearing in the tabbar are incorrect. The same is with the window menu items.
• Extension poinst are not sorting their extensions(gives impact on visuals (menus)).
• The application is without title.
• Using connections tab toggle button causes an unhandled exception.
• Insert audio dialog filters are incorrect.
• The application is not closable.
• The position of the page resize halo button is incorrect, when page zooming is used.

Things to Remove

• Shadow Halo & HUD

Things to Disable

Final Delivery

Comments

How to use the branch

Update your working copy of the repository

• If you have the trunk project imported in Eclipse, change your workspace to a new one (for example "Release")
• Import as a "Maven project" from branches/release04-pre-alpha-5
• All your changes from now on will affect only the release branch
• We should prepare a good sample book.