This is a list of things that still need to be fixed before NetSurf 3.0 can be released.
Code
Potential crashers
- ?
Memory usage
- ?
Other
- Buildsystem: Generate messages as part of build.
Core: LibDOM: DOM events are a big performance regression.Core: Remove last dependencies on LibXML.Core: LibSVGTiny: Use LibDOM instead of LibXML.GTK: Scrollwheel not working.Buildsystem: We've all developed separate bash scripts to automate library fetch/update/build. Get this unified and into version control.Documentation: Explain JS builds, their status, and what (not) to expect.
WONTFIX in 3.0
- Core: Fix forms to use libdom properly. -- Postpone to 3.1.
- Core: Fix entities getting separate BOX_TEXT in box construction. -- Postpone to 3.1.
- Core: Use new treeview. -- Postpone to 3.1.
- Framebuffer: Linux surface support. -- Postpone to 3.1.
- New logo? -- Postpone to 3.1.
Admin
- Can we automate production of releases?
- Have any install targets broken? Missing resources? Trying to copy things that have gone?
- Debian/Ubuntu packages
Timeline
- Branch in Apr 2013
Target frontends for release
- RISC OS
- GTK
- Amiga OS 4.0
- Cocoa
- Atari
- ?
Misc
- For releases, turn Logging off in RISC OS front end. In !NetSurf.!Run: Set NetSurf\$Logging 0
- Changelog
- Testing
- Preparing release branch
- Old and out of date: Run the autobuilder. For example, with user:netsurf on semichrome.net:
$ svn export svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/netsurfbuild netsurfbuild-v2.9
$ cd netsurfbuild-v2.9
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/tags/hubbub/<version> hubbub
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/tags/libcss/<version> libcss
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/tags/libnsbmp/<version> libnsbmp
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/tags/libnsgif/<version> libnsgif
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/tags/libparserutils/<version> libparserutils
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/tags/libsvgtiny/<version> libsvgtiny
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/tags/libwapcaplet/<version> libwapcaplet
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/tags/netsurf/<version> netsurf
$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/netsurfweb
$ mkdir -p downloads/releases/
$ ./autobuild.pl --release="2.9"