Cataclysm-dda: 0.E is Coming

[kevingranade]

It's time for 0.E, only about ~three~ ~four~ ~five~ six months later than planned.

What does this mean?

We're really for real making a real push toward really releasing the real 0.E.
The release blockers are tracked in the release project. Once these are addressed, we can proceed to release.
I waited until really late this time, there are very few remaining blockers that we are aware of at this point.

What does this change?

We are in Everything Freeze now.
We have and are pre-merging some PRs to the dev branch to cut overall merge and conflict management workload, but we are not releasing builds of this branch.

• Going forward, no feature or content or string modifying PRs should be merged.
• Once we enter Content Freeze, PRs that add new items/monsters/terrain/etc should not be merged.

• Once we enter String Freeze, PRs should not be merged if they edit any strings, even if the strings are slightly wrong.

• [x] Feature Freeze

• [x] Content Freeze
• [x] String Freeze
• [x] Blockers cleared
• [x] Publish release candidate
• [x] Completed Changelog
• [x] Merged Translations
• [x] Merge final Ultica update
• [x] Update credits menu
• [x] Pick Release Name
• [x] Draft Press Release
• [ ] Tag blessed commit
• [ ] Post release announcement

Can I help?

If you know about any game-breaking bugs that are not listed here, please leave a comment with a link to the issue.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Give up on releases.

[tim77]

Thanks for pining this issue. :) Just wanted to ask this question.

[KorGgenT]

And we're now in content freeze! We cleared the blockers earlier today totally, but at least one has popped up in the interim. we've got generic guns merged so maybe some more might pop up.

[ZhilkinSerg]

Useful lists:

• pull requests that need to be triaged before 0.E;
• pull requests that still can be merged before 0.E (also includes untriaged pull requests);
• pull requests that are in Content Freeze state and won't be merged before 0.E;
• pull requests that are in Feature Freeze state and won't be merged before 0.E.

[tinukedaya]

@ZhilkinSerg I believe copy&paste played games with you. Fixed the last two links.

• pull requests that are in Content Freeze state and won't be merged before 0.E;
  
  
  
  • pull requests that are in Feature Freeze state and won't be merged before 0.E.
  
  

[l29ah]

If you know about any game-breaking bugs that are not listed here, please leave a comment with a link to the issue.

https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/28816 breaks the game for low-str characters.

[scorpion451]

Game breaker:

37586 Creates soft-locks via runaway temperatures with any of the CBM generators that give the Heated status. (Issue also needs the temperature flag added)

[Ronnie-PL]

36833 breaks the game experience: a problem with stairs connecting houses with their basements causing teleportation.

[KorGgenT]

36833 breaks the game experience: a problem with stairs connecting houses with their basements causing teleportation.

I would say that is an issue that has been papered over for 0.E and is such a large project to fix it probably won't make it in 0.E.

[ZhilkinSerg]

36833 breaks the game experience: a problem with stairs connecting houses with their basements causing teleportation.

I would say that is an issue that has been papered over for 0.E and is such a large project to fix it probably won't make it in 0.E.

We can at least fix peeking teleport (that is mentioned in the comments there).

[yarbelk]

i vote for Extinction as the name. Seems on theme to me.

[Ramza13]

I saw a suggestion to add #38325 to the list of blockers and it does seem like a pretty big issue with NPC quests at the moment.

[l29ah]

https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/36726 bites me every time i decide to do long actions in a somewhat chaotic environment.

[ZhilkinSerg]

In order to reduce backlog, I've started merging pull requests affected by feature and content freeze to dev branch (https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/tree/dev). We will update this branch with changes from master and will merge it to master after stable 0.E is out.

Following PRs were merged so far (list will be updated):

March 6, 2020

37314

March 7, 2020

26525

36908

38474 (as #38592)

38501

38520

38526

38550

38551

38552

37530

37707

37512

37540

37806

37693

37578

38596

March 8, 2020

38643

38511

37699

March 9, 2020

37425

March 10, 2020

36562

37930

37768

37431

37865

March 11, 2020

38262

37368

38221

38122

38149

March 12, 2020

38260

March 15, 2020

36733

March 16, 2020

38762

38763

38764

38765

38766

37894

38235

37936

March 17, 2020

36074

38192

35239

March 18, 2020

38600

March 20, 2020

38880

March 21, 2020

38916

March 29, 2020

39010

March 30, 2020

39103

39115

April 1, 2020

39104

39054

[jkraybill]

There have now been three separate reports of #38611 - despite its title, two of the other reports (see #38641) report getting this error immediately upon game start. Don't know if it's blocker-worthy but seems worth consideration. I couldn't repro it, but I only tried a few times.

[8street]

In order to reduce backlog, I've started merging pull requests affected by feature and content freeze to dev branch (https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/tree/dev).

Sorry for necroposting. Is there an automatic dev branch build somewhere? Like Jenkins or something.
It is dangerous to merge all commits into one branch without the possibility of testing them. Then it is very difficult to catch a causes new bugs and errors.

[ZhilkinSerg]

We do not use Jenkins builds for mergetesting - PR branches are checked out and built locally.

[kevingranade]

@jkraybill If it were reproduceable I'd be looking into it as a blocker, but as it isn't, I've exhausted my options for investigating it and can't justify marking it as a blocker as it's cosmetic.

[Wuzzy2]

I see that string freeze has been activated recently. How much time do translators have at least to complete their work?
I see in German, there's a shocking number of ca. 16,000 strings to translate! That can take a while …

[kevingranade]

Translations are one thing we typically do point releases for, so if people are willing to complete the translation for a language after initial release, I'll happily do those releases. In order to make it into the initial release though, we're looking at a week or so.

[Wuzzy2]

16000/7=2285.

Yeah, I very much doubt I am able to translate 2285 strings per day. I don't know how many other people work on German, however.

[Gaunah]

For German I'm able to help and already did a few over the weekend. But yeah, it's quite a lot.

[Jerimee]

Do we have a media plan for this? Like a press release or anything?

[Wuzzy2]

I am very sad to tell you that I will very likely be unable to contribute translations for this release.

My curl script is failing with Transifex, server returns empty response. My guess is that Transifex chokes on large files.

With my only method to update translation gone, I am unable to translate. I am so sorry. :-(

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For those who are interested, this is the script I am using to download and upload the PO files from Transifex (so I can avoid running proprietary JavaScript code):

https://pastebin.com/ftNvkA1H

And this is how I download and upload a translation:

# (NOTE: Before you can use the script, you must edit the lines starting with "USER" and "PASSWORD". Don't share the file with your password (obviously)!)
# First, I download to PO file:
tf.sh GET cataclysm-dda master-cataclysm-dda
# This downloads the file and puts it into download.po
# Then I translate the file
# When I'm done, I upload:
tf.sh PUT cataclysm-dda master-cataclysm-dda

The failure happens in the last step, the upload. Sever returns empty response. It has worked flawlessly with Transifex for months now, and it still works for ALL other projects. It also still works with smaller resources.

[ZhilkinSerg]

Do we have a media plan for this? Like a press release or anything?

The usual thing - forum, website and Reddit announcements.

[ZhilkinSerg]

@BrettDong Today is very good time for final translations PR before 0.E.

[Wuzzy2]

So, any suggestions how I can help with translations anyway, without running proprietary code (Transifex JavaScript)?

[kevingranade]

Whoops forgot to close, 0.E is out.