Hi,
Over at the LedgerSMB chat channel, we've been considering branching 1.6 to start its stabilization period. With the merge of the most blocking prerequisites this weekend (infrastructure to develop pre-upgrade tests which run before schema&version upgrades) and with the impressive Changelog as listed below "now" feels like a natural branchpoint.
We've taken a look at the issues which are marked to block 1.6 ( https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3...). Of the three issues listed there, one (#2432) can easily be backported to the release branch as it simply inverts the meaning of a checkbox. The same applies to #3363, which is a development-half-finished on my part; it can probably be closed pretty quickly as all that needs to be done is add an extra field on all INSERTs into the GL table. The last issue (#1077) looks like it's pretty large and won't be able to make it into 1.6, unless there's someone to step up and invest a significant amount of time in it in the coming weeks. Here, we think delaying to the next release (and working on a representative test-set to show the problem) is likely the only option we have as a project.
All-in-all, we seem to be at a natural point for branching 1.6.
Comments? Remarks?
Changelog for 1.6 Series Forthcoming
User Interface * Reports and search results exportable to XLS(X) (Yves L) * Left menu replaced by a (faster) Dojo-based version (Yves L/Erik H)
Installation & Administration * Added 'System Information' page to setup.pl for problem diagnosis (Erik H) * Numerous improvements for the migrations and infrastructure (Yves L/Erik H) * Better detection of incorrect @INC paths (David G) * Automatic date format selection using browser locale (Yves L/Erik H) * No more warnings from database creation and upgrade (Erik H) * Improved logging: various logs correlated using unique request IDs (Erik H) * Functions 'warn()' and 'die()' logged to debug logs (Erik H) * Removed need for 'tempdir' and associated configuration option (Nick P) * Removed numerous unused configuration options (Nick P) * Specific output formats can be disabled in configuration (Yves L) * Respect smtpuser and smtppass configuration options (Nick P) * Add smtpport configuration option (Nick P)
Performance * PSGI responses no longer written to file but kept in memory (Erik H/Yves L)
Rewritten inventory tracking and adjustments * Removed the need for the ill-understood 'Inventory Entity' (Erik H) * Inventory adjustments GL transactions instead of dummy invoices (Erik H) * SQL & in-browser(BDD) tests (Erik H)
Code cleanup * Removed code duplication in - Template handling framework (Yves L) * Remove unused variables and unreachable code (Nick P) * Remove fragments of REST framework never fully implemented (Erik H) * Authentication handling centralized in request dispatch code (Erik H) * Cleaned up handling of uploaded files in request handling (Erik H) * Moved to Plack::Request (from CGI::Simple & LedgerSMB) (Erik H) * Template format plugin cleanup and refactoring (Erik H/Nick P) * Template handling code cleanup (Erik H/Nick P) * Unreferenced UI templates deleted (Erik H) * Centralized and more robust entry point for code in old/ (Erik H) * Merge of SQL-Ledger 2.8 and 3.0 migration code; improved consistency (Yves L) * Improved cleanup of temp files and dirs after use (Erik H) * Improved HTML structure (balanced closing/opening tags, etc) (Yves L) * Factored HTTP response responsibility out of LedgerSMB::Template (Erik H) * Moved request pre- and post-processing into custom Plack Middlewares (Erik H)
Quality assurance * Port testing of database routines to pgTAP (and Perl's 'prove') (Yves L) * Enforce numerous Perl::Critic policies with code cleanup (Nick P/Rob R) * Add tests for all template output formats (Nick P)
Erik H is Erik Huelsmann Yves L is Yves Lavoie Nick P is Nick Prater Rob R is Rob Ransbottom David G is David Godfrey