To-Do list for 0.9.0-release

[Fohlen]

Note

If you update a ticket and include or exclude it to the release

• add or remove the milestone
• think about if it is really critical, and mark it with prio:RELEASE
• otherwise we will not make sure that it's included

About the release

Since we're all excited about the new 0.9.0 release I wanted to note down an overall ticket on when (I, or we I assume) can define the new release as done. Please add missing tickets, but carefully, bloating the new release unnecessarily is not good.

• Find a release name, suggestions have been
  • Speed release
  • Rolling stones release
• Clean up tickets after release!
  • Divide and rule = do what must be done for release, but split big tickets to smaller ones if not everything is straightly release critical
• Release at Hackathon 2017

I have updated the milestone date for the 0.9.0-release to 1st of September. I think it's a very realistic day given the remaining workload, and it'd be good to have the release happen so close to the Hackathon (that will motivate the whole team, I guess). As well it will be nice to be able to announce a release at date 😸

If we all can agree that 1st of September is definitely feasible for the next release, we can make a blog post (and social media) with an announcement for the upcoming release. Please discuss in the ticket.

On the website

Provide a download page that tells user instructions on how to get the game, #269 @terencode ?

On core side

• add Windows icon Use the inexor logo as a windows icon #451
• Fix this one, Textures are black after map restart #407
• Merge Console layer integration #445
• add a named release 0.9.0 to the repo

Media

• Migrate init.cfg, Migrate init.cfg to TOML #427

On flex side

• Implement downloads Implement release download mechanism #440
• Decouple interfaces Decouple the user interfaces #450
• Make npm install-able Make flex npm install-able #449
  • that involves designing aman-page, any volunteers? Create man page for inexor-flex  #494
• Refactor flex
  • reduce eslint to eslint:recommended and fix all the issues with it
  • all occurences of process.cwd() should be replaced with standard paths
    • the binary path should be somewhere like user folder + 'bin'
    • the proto path needs to be set to bin/path_to_proto as well
  • all @inexor-game/ prefixes should be renamed to @inexorgame
  • all TODO passages should be resolved, if possible
  • add a .travis.yaml that runs npm lint, npm test and add a build badge
• PUBLISH 🎆 via npm publish, in the future this might be done by Travis

PS: The flex refactoring tasks are perfect to get in touch with the code

[a-teammate]

good suggestions, the date looks good.
some more (imo they are necessary):

• Rename executable and proto files #430 (rename proto and executable files) [maybe optional]

• Enable the RPC startup method for server instances #431 (enable RPC for servers) (necessary for server instances controlled by flex)

• merge pull request Refactor server/client + shrink monster headers #455

  • necessary bc some flaws in the logger
  • if pr not possible at least cherry-pick the logging commit (as otherwise multiple instances will crash on windows)
  • necessary bc of Enable the RPC startup method for server instances #431 (could quickfix it without merging remove_standalone probably)

• add a bomberman map to media-essential

  • otherwise we can not really test the bomberman mode

• remove the texture errors and not working maps from media-essential

• doxygen@inexorgame/stable is not working for me, only doxygen@inexorgame/testing

[Croydon]

add a bomberman map to media-essential

Only if it's 100% open source. I'm strictly vetoing adding any non-open-source files to media-essential. It is already hard enough to get the current things out of there, don't add new ones. We promised from the very beginning to be 100% open source and we still don't fullfill that promise.

Since you want it for testing, media-additional should be enough. Media-essential should be stable and open source.

remove the texture errors and not working maps from media-essential

I will have a look at some point after tomorrow, at least when I can finally compile AND run again.

[Fohlen]

I will add the following to the list as well

• add a windows setup, see Add windows setup #277

After some time thinking about @aschaeffer 's comment I think releasing the new version at the Hackathon will be a nice "marketing" thingie. So. The release date is now settled at 22. of September (or 15th).

NOTE please consider this ticket (and the 0.9 milestone) as locked. Don't add new tickets without prior debate. Don't add any feature tickets, only add critical bugs.

[a-teammate]

Oh and:

• on windows the APPDATA path should only get used for things the user is not supposed to ever see.
  • its not for media, its not for pictures, its not for demos: all of that should go into the "Documents/My Games" folder.

[Fohlen]

Can we push this further?
Do we have testers?

Maybe @movabo and @Croydon can test the automatic install routine with the graphical installer?
If everything goes well, let's finally roll out 0.9.0 release!

If we would manage to bake a snap for Ubuntu for the release, it would be amazing as well!

[Fohlen]

I see that we can agree on a census for the 0.9.0 release (from what I read in Riot)

The following is now to-do to actually do the release

• test the installers, windows and snap
• update the website links (there's a PR for that)
• write a CHANGELOG for inexor-core and inexor-flex
• add the 0.9.0 release tag for core and flex. Publish flex to npm.
• lock the master branch of inexor-flex after the release.
• write and publish a blog post
• clean up tickets and milestones