Re: [gnugo-devel] close to release?

[Inge Wallin]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Arend Bayer wrote:

>
> Dan wrote:
>
> > > Are we close to a release now?
> >
> > GNU Go 3.4 is already a year old. It seems to me that we are
> > not very close to a release, but we are in the middle period
> > of the release cycle when we should be cautious about changes
> > that make the engine weaker.
>
> One argument in favor of a release soonish is that 3.4 has an annoyingly
> high number of known critical bugs. On the other hand, with now around
> 10 KGS bots running gnugo, we are at the moment getting more real-life
> testing than ever before (I suppose everyone who can set up kgs2gtp will
> also be able to send us a bug report in case of a crash). And we have
> fixed all these bugs we know about in 3.4. So there is a good chance that
> a soon-to-be-released-3.6 would be more stable (where "soon" does not mean
> "in 2 weeks", of course).

The question is not completely academic.  Just today I got an email from
one of the organizers of the Computer Olympiad of this year.  He asked if
we wanted to defend our gold medal from last year.  See
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2004/ for more info.

I haven't answered yet since I wanted to run the question by the list.  If
nobody wants to go to Israel, I suggest that we try to do it the same way
as last year - to have a volounteer run Gnu Go for us.

In this case it might be a good idea to get a release out during early or
middle June.  The tournament is during the first week of July.

Do we have any prize money left for the starting fees?

        -Inge