Andreas,
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Andreas Pflug <[email protected]>wrote:
Beta means,
> "This will be our next version, should work for you, please report bugs
> we haven't noticed yet".
You should re-read the definition then, because you seem to have Beta and
Release Candidate confused with each other (I blame GMail Beta for that!
:P)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta
A Beta is a public technology preview for our community of users to play
with and provide feedback on (vs an Alpha that is not read for people to
play with), it does not imply the software is releasable. There are often
several betas followed by a small number of release candidates (RC).
Each RC is what it says; a potential candidate to be released, which also
implies it is polished.
> But the midi stuff doesn't work for me at all.
> Not only no scripting, but (forgot to mention, I've been testing so much
> that one misbehavour after another popped up) adding midi keys didn't
> work either.
>
Are you running the beta or are you build this off of the very old non-beta
trunk? If it's the former we have; launchpad where people are supposed to
make bug reports when they find problems... Your problem with the RMX was
reported there by a user and has been addressed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367281
> , or the 1.7 better have a
> perfectly working conversion tool if 1.6 gets dropped.
>
While you are writing a perfect conversion script, don't spend too much time
on it, because its only going to be one-time use script to convert all the
mappings and then it will be discarded.
Oh and please take care to test it with each resulting device mapping...
huh? you don't have all of the devices? [The dev team collectively have
about a third of the devices that mappings exist for, btw]
Maybe you'll have to put out some kind of public release to try to get
non-dev team owners of those devices to verify that they work...
> > Scriptable controls allows Mixxx to not only control dynamic stateful
> > controllers like the SCS.3d, which would simply not usable in Mixxx
> > 1.6.1, it also allows us to finally start to support controllers that
> > have re-mappable behaviours.
> I'm in no doubt that the scripting will be a very nice feature as soon
> as it works. It just doesn't always returning -1 says the debugging
> output, making 1.7 a huge regression for me.
>
The latest mappings for the RMX from BZR mixxx/1.7 branch work fine for me.
> If you have questions specifically related to the RMX you are welcome
> to bug me and of course we always are happy to look at patches people
> send our way.
> Well as I mentioned I feel very uncomfortable with the current code base
> (including repository). Mixxx currently isn't a project to use from
> source and contribute minor stuff (that's what I tried and failed
> miserably, spending hours with zero result), and I'm not inclined to
> invest time cleaning up right now. I'll be hacking the debian package
> for me and might come back when Mixxx has settled again.
>
Mixxx's as a product is tackling a complicated set of technical challenges,
it code base reflects that complexity.
Unfortunately, it has never been easy to pick up and it likely never will
get much easier.
Expecting someone to be able to jump in and start contributing right away is
not a realistic expectation to have...
If you want to contribute to Mixxx eventually, then take your time learning
it (all of the devs went through this process). Try to fix something small
at first and work your way up, try to ask questions without being overly
dramatic or stating a predefined bias in them; you will save yourself some
embarassement should someone come back with a rational that you hadn't
considered (sometimes you'll find devs will tell you that we know something
is bad and needs to be replaced).
Cheers,
-G
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