Re: Planning the next major release

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2015-06-04 23:58 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>:
> > We often make major releases in June, just before Sharkfest. That
> probably
> > won't happen this year. A major release now would mean either releasing
> 2.0
> > (featuring the Qt UI) without feature parity with the GTK+ UI, or
> releasing
> > 1.14 (featuring the GTK+ UI). I'm not particularly fond of either choice.
> >
> > Unless there's a compelling reason to get something out the door now, I'd
> > prefer to wait until the Qt UI is ready, which raises the question of the
> > definition of "ready." We've been tracking complete and pending features
> at
> >     https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/QtShark
> >
> > We've made a lot of progress but are still lacking many features
> including
> > the Wireless Toolbar, a few Statistics dialogs, and quite a few Telephony
> > dialogs.
> IMO it would be a great disservice to our users to release Wireshark
> with the current Qt state causing regressions due to missing features.
> I also think that delaying our established release cycle time-wise
> indefinitely would also be a disservice since Wireshark is a
> professional tool and our users are expecting use to provide a new
> release around June and they may have committed upgrade plans.
> Implementing the remaining missing functionality in a rush and
> releasing with Qt as a default UI is also something which I would not
> do, because the newly implemented parts would not be tested
> extensively.
>
> The GTK+ UI is in a releasable state AFAIK thus I propose releasing
> 1.14 with GTK+ shortly after Sharkfest because it is the best we can
> do four our users and we can fiinish the final touches during
> Sharkfest.
> The GTK+ UI can be made really nice on OS X using Homebrew [1] and I
> think nothing prevents us from providing a native Quartz UI on OS in
> our .dmg-s. I can work on this during Sharkfest.
> If someone beats me to that I plan fixing the Windows GTK+ builds and
> making them beautiful, too by switching to GTK+ 3.1x for 1.14. Doing
> the work on the OS X part took me about a week and I expect the
> Windows work to be about the same.
The question is when Wireshark Qt will be feature parity with Wireshark GTK.
If it is for 3 or 4 month (like September/October), it is possible to wait
to release a new major release.
if it is for next year... it should be great to release a 1.14


Regards,


> Cheers,
> Balint
>
> [1]
> http://balintreczey.hu/blog/beautiful-wireshark-on-os-x-using-homebrew-and-gtk3quartz/
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