As noted, Gramps 6.0 comes with a host of changes all over the app—from the UI, help links, and items under the hood. I’m especially interested in getting feedback on three items: Upgrading Any errors throughout reports or UI views Performance of your filters (1) The upgrade path is a little bit…

Now there is the Clone button: gramps/addons/FilterParams at master · kkujansuu/gramps · GitHub

It might be a dangerous precedent to have code that modifies Gramps behavior in a Registration

Although we’re waaaay off topic of what to beta test, but since we are talking about filters, I went ahead and added a work-in-progress PR for Gramps 6.1 to allow canceling running filters. First, there was no interface for the User class to make a progress bar that can be cancelled. So I added th…

Partial results could be useful for debugging a custom filters. No matter what’s displayed – partial results, no results, or the entire database – it probably needs some highly visible warning.

Is the import of gedcom 7 already usable? Does this test file work? I get import errors. [image] Gramps 6.0 and gedcom 7 The GEDCOM7 reference file that everyone should test against: https://gedcom.io/testfiles/gedcom70/maximal70.ged

[image] Woody: Is the import of gedcom 7 already usable? No. I do not know of anyone sharing a Beta of a GEDCOM7 importer plugin. Or anyone who has even mentioned that they are working on it.

OK? I thought gedcom 7 was already on start for Gramps 6.0. My mistake. Hence the import errors… :cry:

[image] dsblank: I’m especially interested in getting feedback on three items: Upgrading Any errors throughout reports or UI views Performance of your filters [image] dsblank: But you should see a huge increase in speed in some filters due to an new addition called the “filter optimizer…

My rc1 is inoperative right now. But in beta2, the samesurnames.py QuickReport used to show the linked surnames listed in Top Surnames ( a default Dashboard gramplet) has a cascade of errors ending in AttributeError: 'SameSurname' object has no attribute 'apply_to_one' Does this test as fixed in r…

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Is the import of gedcom 7 already usable?
Does this test file work? I get import errors.

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