Hello,
I have started organizing Launchpad to get a clear view of the roadmap
for 2.2 and beyond. I think we should do this soon after every feature
freeze or we will continue to wander aimlessly and risk going 2 years
between releases yet again. I think we should pick a few areas to
concentrate on for each release. This can help us work together to
deliver big features in a polished state when they are first released
and not spread ourselves too thin. 2.1 was largely focused on effects,
skins, and rewriting the SoundSources. For 2.2, I propose focusing on
continuing to develop the effects system and finishing the library redesign.
I have assigned myself to a handful of features for the effects system
for 2.2 including saving/restoring chains and mixing chains as sends.
These will require implementing some smaller features first that will
also pave the way for implementing LV2 and VST effects plugin support in
a usable way, which I have tentatively assigned to Mixxx 2.3.
Uwe has already volunteered to get database queries out of the GUI
thread and into their own thread. I'm not too clear how big of a project
that will be, but I suspect that may be enough for one developer to
focus on for 6 months.
Daniel, would you like to take the lead on finishing the library
redesign? Of course we will have to come to a consensus on what we want
the outcome of the redesign to act like first. I'd like to postpone
reviving that discussion at least until we get this situation sorted out
with the build servers.
With a redesigned backend and frontend, the library should be in really
good shape for 2.2. I am hopeful we can make Mixxx 2.2 the best music
library management software we've always wanted. :)
If you would like to contribute but you are not sure what you want to
work on, I suggest reading through the backlog of feature requests for
some ideas:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bugs?field.searchtext=&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.importance%3Alist=WISHLIST&field.omit_dupes=on&orderby=-datecreated&start=0
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