Re: [Audacity-devel] track linking -> 2.0? (apropos [Bug 177] Unwanted label appears if pasting audio when there are already labels)

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
| Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:45:44 -0700
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] track linking -> 2.0? (apropos [Bug 177]	Unwanted label appears if pasting audio when there are	already labels)
> >>>> --- Comment #2 from Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> 2010-07-21 11:49:26 BST ---
> >>>> If the intention is still to enable the current (reworked/much better) linking
> >>>> for 1.3.13 or 1.3.14 and to include it in 2.0 (which was my understanding),
> >>>> then it is not safe to demote this, as it will be forgotten. Reverted to P2
> >>>> until definite intention to leave linking out of 2.0 is confirmed.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I didn't follow the discussion about turning it off very closely, and
> >>> didn't see that it's supposed to be turned back on. What's the plan?
> >>>
> >>> We should have the code match the plan, so alphas have all that will be
> >>> in the next beta.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Been a couple of days and no response to this, so I went ahead and
> >> turned on EXPERIMENTAL_LINKING. I'll wait another couple of days in case
> >> somebody wants it turned off, before looking into bug 177.
> > 
> > I couldn't find the exact comments on Nabble, so I stayed quiet, but I 
> > turned on EXPERIMENTAL_LINKING in the Windows Nightly straight 
> > after 1.3.12 to get feedback about it. 
> 
> As the nightly builds are alpha "releases", they should reflect what's
> in the code repository. It says they do at
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Nightly_Builds.

Actually, quite true. The occasional ANSI Win Nightly does reflect SVN, 
as (I think) the Mac Nightly does. Otherwise I do sometimes use the Unicode
Win Nightly to test as yet uncommitted things, then take them out if it no 
longer serves a purpose. Otherwise, virtually no user feedback is possible. 
Special builds for specific tests of uncomitted code could be done, but that 
could get confusing and space-consuming itself. 

I don't think the Wiki Nightly Build implies these alphas are "releases" 
though (or it shouldn't imply that). "Release" on the Wiki page refers to the 
type of build (i.e not debug, though there is a weekly Mac debug build).   

On the download pages on SF we say:

    "Nightly Builds" are Alpha builds from our latest development code that we
     work on between releases. "

Do you think that text is wrong?


> > I did this because I understood if 
> > we could get over the display problems with linked tracks (link icon in 
> > the Track Name and the "concentration camp" effect) ...
> 
> I don't see a bugzilla entries for those, but I found the discussions on
> nabble. Will review those and possibly add some bugzilla entries.

Like many issues, if they seem to be actively in progress at the time 
with a suggested timescale to work on them, they may de facto not 
get added (especially if enabling of the feature isn't committed).   





Gale