Hi guys, Adam and I have had some lengthy discussions about SourceForge, and we're generally not satisfied with the experience our users have to go through to access and use important content like our forums, the bug tracker, etc.
A number of these usability issues has finally prompted us to explore other options, and we've decided that sometime in the future we're going to move our bug tracking to Launchpad and eventually migrate everything but SVN and mixxx-devel off of SourceForge. Launchpad's bug tracker allows us to track bugs that are in other bug trackers (like PortAudio's trac), which I think is going to pretty useful. I also hope we'll get to use Launchpad's translations facility sometime this year, which will help us coordinate internationalization of Mixxx. The official Mixxx website is being redesigned by Paul Bloch, and Garth has graciously offered to host www.mixxx.org on his server. Big thanks to Paul and Garth for volunteering their time and resources to help us better position ourselves for expansion. As part of the new website, we'll be hosting our own forums which will help build our user community. Over the next few months, we'll also be experimenting with hosting our own downloads on a separate server. We don't expect that users will experience any disruption while this is going on. If you'd like to check out our Launchpad page, it's located here: https://launchpad.net/mixxx If you're a developer, you can join our "Mixxx Development Team" on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~mixxxdevelopers As the new website begins to unfold, I'll try to sketch out a timeline for when we're officially moving the website to mixxx.org and the bug tracker to Launchpad. In the meantime, if you have any questions or comments, let me know. Thanks, Albert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
