[vlc-devel] Releases plan?

[Rafaël Carré]

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Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> 	Hello,
+1

> Given that every second developper appears to have jumped ship, it is hardly 
> surprising that we are way behind schedule :-( Worst yet, we are still far 
> from even -test1, mostly due to:
> - Qt interface still incomplete and very unstable (as far as I can tell),

Still incomplete that's very true

About stability with videos, that can be improved (i.e. remove qt
assertion on stop, resize, enable some video filters etc etc) by
compiling libqt4 with -DQT_NO_DEBUG.
I sent a mail about that to debian maintainers, still get no reply atm,
I will keep you informed.

> - input/playlist code hardly better.

The code is quite complex (at least for me) and it should be tested,
tested, tested, tested.

Backtraces with reproduce cases should be posted on this very mailing
list, I think that it's more read than irc channel and trac tickets.

> On the bright side, we have "fixed" well over 100 tickets :-) Problem is, that 
> there are still almost as many open tickets against the 0.9.0 branch. At this 
> point, I pretty much feel like postponing any ticket that does not 
> say "regression" or is not in "assigned" state.

I support that, but "assigned" doesn't mean "approved" by the assignee.

> The thing is, we will optimistically not release in 2007, which means more 
> than a year from the previous complete release. At this rate, we'll soon beat 
> Debian...

Late is better than never, or early buggy release.

> Suggestions most welcome.

No new features without approval asked on the mailing list.

Name a release manager (I'm not with you since a long time, but iirc
thedj managed 0.8.6 release) to coordinate the work:
	Who is working on what.
	Which features are advancing slower than others
	Sort trac

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Rafaël Carré
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