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TriAstro
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHristo, ? For those of us who have continued to use the old OW 4.7.0.7, when you transition to OW 5.0, specifically, what will be different from the old OW?? Will we see a different start screen/menu/submenus?? Will the old feeds be eliminated?? Will OW 4.7.0.7 be discontinued?? Will we have to reset all our site parameters?? For me, the ideal situation would be that the old screens/menus/submenus all stay the same in OW 5.0 and that any transition to OWC be transparent to the user, with all the old feeds being repopulated in OW 5.0 automatically. ? Thanks for all that you have done with OW. ? Best regards. ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of hristo_dpavlov via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 1:16 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [OccultWatcher] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0 ? Hi All, ? You may have noticed that I released an update to OWC where now the event search has been extended to also search for events involving comets. This is the visible change related to the migration of the Comets feed to OWC. ? With that now completed and with OWC and OW 5.0 having operated for many weeks I feel that it is time to push the public release of OW 5.0 ? If you think that there are still issues that need to be solved before the release please speak up. If I don't hear anything from you I will release OW 5.0 over the weekend. ? Some other important topics related to this release: ? - As OW 5.0 will be fetching a number of feeds from OWC while OW 4.x would be using the old style web sites, I suggest that to minimize the work of feed maintainers we announce a 2 month migration period and stop the release of data to the old feeds after that. This should give enough time for people to migrate. If I don't hear any discussion on this topic I will also make this announcement with the release of OW 5.0 ? - There are likely still some minor issues to be discovered but releasing a fix for them would be a small-risk operation for OW 5.0 and it happens without user impact for OWC. Therefore unless something bigger is reported I don't want to hold the release of OW 5.0 for minor issues. If bigger issues are discovered post release I will move quickly to resolve them. ? - As the first two major phases of OWC will be complete () I would like to focus on the next features. For this I would like to ask you to please vote for say 1 or 2 features if you have preferences. I may also update the phases page and make it possible for people to actually vote on the page by clicking a button, to make the process easier. I will try to get this released over the weekend, too. ? Let me know if you have any other comments / feedback. ? Cheers, Hristo. ? ? ? ? |
