Hi guys, We've made a lot of progress in eliminating blocker bugs over the last few weeks, and we think we're nearing the 1.8.0 final release. I want to give a brief overview of some recent developments and explain our rough plan for the next few weeks.
The most significant recent development is our switch to using Qt's QSharedPointer class to wrap TrackInfoObject, which helps us manage memory a little more predictably. In our previous two betas of 1.8.0, we knew we were leaking TrackInfoObjects, but we made a decision not to tackle it until later because other features like looping needed broader testing more urgently. Hopefully either RJ or myself will send an email to the list explaining the new TrackPointer class in more detail, because it will likely affect several ongoing projects. I also have a major cleanup of the promo tracks code in a branch, which is almost ready to be pushed and merged. The TrackPointer code currently resides in features_sqlite and is awaiting my final approval before we do a ton of merging. The merges that we'll be doing before 1.8: - Merge features_sqlite into trunk. - Merge features_promo into trunk. - Merge trunk back into 1.8, since there's a few fixes in trunk that became relevant for 1.8. (We'll try our best to avoid doing backwards merges like this again in the future.) I anticipate we'll have these merges done by next week, and we will be ready to proceed with a release candidate for 1.8.0. We should be aiming for either the RC or a 1.8.0 final by the week of August 1st. The Ubuntu 10.10 feature freeze is August 12th [1], so if we don't succeed in getting 1.8.0 final out by the start of August, then we will push for the 1.8.0 RC to be included in Ubuntu 10.10. If anyone has any questions about the release, please let me know! Thanks, Albert [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
