Re: [Audacity-devel] 1.2.0-pre1?

[Matt B. <mbr...@cs...>]

On Mar 1, Joshua Haberman wrote:

> As far as I know, all the features we want for 1.2 are in place.  It
> seems like a good time to make a release with the intent of getting
> widespread qa.  Perhaps we could release a 1.2.0-pre1 on Monday?

I'd like a little more time to call a string freeze and marshal the
translators.  This will also give the developers some more time to test
the past weeks' checkins before turing them loose.  Could we make it one
week from Monday?

I would also be a bit more conservative on the version numbering.  I
don't want an unstable release with a "stable" number to reflect badly
on the new version, and I also don't want to see the 1.2.0 "pre" phase
drawn out for 6 months.  But then, I haven't been working with HEAD
lately so I'm not really sure how close we are.

You might want to consider waiting another release before calling it
1.2-pre.  Right now we have visible regressions from 1.0 (e.g. label
tracks), a lot of our core code is recently rewritten, we don't have
file format compatibility, and the new file format is buggy (can create
invalid XML).  I'm not sure I want to aim for wide user testing until
more of these issues are fixed.