[vlc-devel] Releases plan?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le Saturday 29 September 2007 19:22:00 Jean-Baptiste Kempf, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> > 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),
> > - input/playlist code hardly better.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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...
>
> What about we make a feature deadline, branch and stabilize it?
> So we could go on breaking everything in the trunk (new playlist for
> pierre) and we could stop the contribs...

But is the playlist satisfactory at all yet?

> The Qt4 code is not yet perfect, but the difficult parts are done, I
> think. And help is welcome.

If you consider that the threading problems are an "easy" part.


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