Re: [Audacity-quality] final decision on releasing rc3 as 1.3.13 final

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

| From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
| Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:51:47 -0700
| Subject: [Audacity-quality] final decision on releasing rc3 as 1.3.13 final
> We had some concerns about the Win Unicode version of rc3, but I think
> the question is resolved now, that its MSVC runtime DLL's are the right
> choice.
> 
> Let's get final input on whether there's any reason to not release rc3
> as final.
> 
> It's only a little less than 24 hours, so I propose we decide by 19:00
> UTC on April 10. If no objections by then (that RM thinks warrant
> stoppage), we'll release 1.3.13.
> 
> Speak now or forever hold your peace. :-)

Vaughan,

Sorry to be late breaking my peace but still catching up with mail.
It's now 18:15 UTC.

If you think the mismatch between the manifest and the dll's is less of a 
risk than having the older dll's, then my only concern is still with the 
Manual in rc3: 

1 It's slightly different between the platforms

2 the Preferences images are all incorrect (and the content 
   of the Preferences pages is in some cases incorrect)  

3 no account at all has been taken of the new behaviour 
   and dialogue when importing uncompressed files. So it's
   wrong as well as incomplete. 

If we pulled the Manual now and rebuilt we would fix 1) and 3)
on the basis of work done since rc3, and  2) would be improved.

I don't think it would take more than a couple of hours to fix 2)
properly. I'm sure you would have volunteers. 

3) is the most important to me, and likely to cause the most issue.
I would be glad to rebuild to fix that. Would it really need 
another 48 hour test? 

BTW I haven't been following because I was tied up finishing 
Release Notes, but have we tested installing "over the top" on 
Windows and Mac?
  




Gale