Hi Anast,
First, thanks again for your work on nested crates and for starting this
discussion.
Although the library redesign branch is (mostly?) feature complete, it
is a *massive* change that has not been extensively tested yet. I am
concerned that targeting it for the next release would push the release
back by months. Can we identify the remaining issues with the library
redesign branch? If we could come up with a procedure/checklist for
manual testing to identify issues that would be helpful. Then we may get
a more realistic idea of just how much work would be required.
I propose to focus development on finishing the open PRs polishing the
effects, skins, and Windows upgrading, then finally cutting a beta
release, then shifting our focus to the library redesign. I was hoping
the work on those open PRs would be done early during GSoC, but alas,
here we are in September with PRs that have been sitting awaiting review
since May or earlier. My postfader effects branch has been complete for
over two months without any review at all.
I am frustrated with this situation. I don't think it's fair that you
and Joan have to wait so long for your work to finally get released, but
I do want to have a release at all. We had a plan for cutting a beta
release in late January, then that just didn't happen without any
discussion of what was going on. IMO the long term solution is to have
more people testing and reviewing, but every time I ask for that, or
process improvements to make it easier to get more people involved with
testing, it seems to go nowhere. :/ I hope that putting out the next
release, which finally has all the common features of controllers
implemented, will bring a surge of developer interest, but to get there,
we need to have a release. It seems like a chicken-and-egg problem. I
don't know what else to do at this point other than wait for things to
keep slowly plodding along at the pace they have been.
Going back to the library redesign, we also have the issue of the
general design of the library GUI. Currently the second library feature
pane is just disabled to postpone finishing the design. If we were to
actually release this single-pane version, there should be a bit more
polishing to remove awkwardness from when it was designed for two
features. If we postpone merging the branch for after the next release,
I would like to make the following release with a fully developed
two-pane solution as originally intended for Joan's GSoC project. I
think we have a good idea for what direction to move forward with the
design (independently selecting each feature), but it will take a lot of
work to implement.
How does the multi-broadcasting branch fit into this? I have not tested
it. Looking at the discussion on the PR, it seems there are just a few
relatively small UX design issues to figure out before it is ready to
merge. Is that correct? If that is the case, I think it could go in the
next release.
On 09/11/2017 05:01 AM, Anast Gramm wrote:
Hello,
The new library redesign should be -imho- a part of the next mixxx release.
The problem is that currently there are some problems with the code in that
branch,
I think the library could preform faster that it does and also the lack of
poslish
in some library features (like autoDJ) is setting things back.
I've built a nested crates system on top of that branch, and in order
to get it merged the library redisign needs to get the love it needs.
We should start by mergin my nested crates branch with the library redesign one
in the upstream and then we can all work from there to get it done.
I will be avaliable to work on those things after September. It would be
nice to have more people working at it since it's kinda big.
Here is the redisign PR: https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/1117
And the nested crates one: https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/1304
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