[tsc-devel] Feature Freeze Discussion...

Chris Jacobsen | Mon, 06 Oct 2014 01:13:14 UTC

 Bugsbane and I were discussing this at https://github.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/issues/213.
We had the following thoughts for getting release 2.0 done:* Do not make small mechanics changes to support de-Mario-ization as was discussed.* Reinstitute the feature freeze for all graphics changes except those that eliminate Mario-isms.* Music is in a bit more dire of a situation -- the goal should still be to eliminate Mario-isms, however.* We should make a list of all bugs (checking for ones in "Needs Info"  status) and determine which   ones are needed for the release.* Website changes, etc, are also needed for release 2.0, though within reason.
After this point, we could make sure that only tasks for release 2.0 are marked as such in Github.Github will then show us how close we are to a release.
The decision to be made more carefully is when to halt the 2.X series of releases and only support the3.X series, which will break old levels.
On another note, I'd like to get my Desert Break-In level into the release if possible.  It still has a bugwhere it is missing level loading/saving code in its script.  If I can get a little help in figuring it out, I can submit it for the release.  I doubt it will be possible to get it in a map in release 2.0, but we can discuss this.
-datahead