Hi Elisa,

It would not be the first time that the refrigeration process was condensed. I think the timetable always expresses our ideal intention. I'm of the opinion that getting the build back to building cleanly (and then things like measurement ticket) should be our priority over the precise dates we originally set out.

Many thanks,
James

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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@newcastle.ac.uk
School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University

From: Tei-council <tei-council-bounces@lists.tei-c.org> on behalf of Elisa Beshero-Bondar <ebbondar@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 2:42:52 PM
To: tei-council@lists.tei-c.org
Subject: [Tei-council] Condensing (or compressing) Refrigeration?
 
Dear Councillors,
My calendar tells me we have entered the Refrigeration period leading to the Freeze scheduled for 9 July next week. I have seen that Refrigeration is often, ironically, a moment of  heated work as we try to resolve big issues and introduce something we care about for the next release. I am trying that now with the long overdue Measurement code (unitDecl, unitDef, etc), which really ought to be coming out. I see intense activity with uniHan right now and wonder if that too is targeted for this release?

Here are some timing issues and updates. I have communicated with my original release tech partner, Vanessa, and we agreed that, given the lack of time she has had lately to work with us and concentrate on the TEI, that it is best she defer being a release tech until another time. As I see it, too, I expect this release to be challenging—I am expecting the unexpected—because of all the server issues recently and because the dev branch is still unstable with all the unwanted excitement over the simplePrint ODD. Vanessa asked me to convey her sincere apologies to Council for her absences and lack of time. I hope after the season of deep preoccupation and sadness that she will rejoin us with all the energy I know she has, but now is not the moment.

I am thankful to Magdalena for volunteering to host me near Warsaw after the DH2019 conference next week, and she agreed that the two of us will be the release techs. As we look at prepping this next release, timing now really depends on both of us. I’m visiting her from 13-20 July—and I think Magdalena has her own travel plans starting (Saturday) 20 July. I think we’re safest if things go wrong to make sure we do the release in the middle of that week.

But it sounds like we’re still heatedly coding toward this release, so I’d like to take stock of what we can complete just now—and reset the Refrigeration period, also perhaps scale back on some maybe too ambitious things we thought we could feasibly complete so we can properly refrigerate. Thoughts? What’s the state of the dev branch just now?

Also, I will be flying to Utrecht to arrive for DH2019 on 6 July.

Best,
Elisa

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