Yes, but the milestones are a passive system. My goal is to force people to actively talk about the release.
On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 07:02 -0800, Gavin Swanson wrote: > I'd really like to see movement in the direction of release. Isn't > this what the milestone system is for though? Shouldn't issues/bugs be > getting tracked for a given milestone (or sub-milestone being > alpha/beta/RC/whatever) then everyone could see what were blockers for > any given point and then when all of them were cleared it could be > released (alpha/beta/...) at that point. > > > Just my thoughts. > > Gavin S > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Owen Williams <owilli...@mixxx.org> > wrote: > We've been making really good progress recently (hurray > covers!), and I > want to get a feel for what other people think about the > current status > of the build as well as put some pressure behind a beta > release. To > that end, at some regular interval, maybe every two weeks, > I'll send an > email to the list asking "Why not now?" The idea being, the > devs should > provide a list of the fixes/features/work that they think are > preventing > a beta release. > > For myself, I'd say my only major blocker is that the Deere > skin needs > to be cleaned up. Max and I had talked about some things, and > he > mentioned some manual work that needs to be done. I need to > flesh out > the bits about master sync, the midi wizard, and the new skin > system for > example. > > The problem with this tactic is that I've been sitting around > waiting > for someone to pick up the Deere skin work. That creates a > conflict > between me thinking the skin needs fixing for the release, but > nobody is > doing it. So my controversial addition to this plan is: if > you think > something is a blocker, you do the work on it :). If you > think someone > else's PR needs to get finished, I think it's time to just > pick it up > and finish it. So this weekend I will start poking at Deere, > removing > all the crazy background colors and cleaning it up. > > (There has been some hesitation releasing a beta because a > beta should > be releasable as a proper major version if it goes well. I > actually > disagree, since that's what I'd call a "release candidate." > But if we > want to call the next release an alpha2 that's ok with me.) > > So like I said, here are my blockers: > > * Deere skin work > * Manual updates > > So, why not now? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push > notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org > > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org > > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
