I super-agree with submitting the 1.8.0 RC to Ubuntu as 1.8.0 final. It
won't be 'released' until October 30th, by which time we could have already
prepped a 1.8.1 to be instantly updated to fix any bugs that cropped up in
the 1.8.0 RC.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Albert Santoni <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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