[Audacity-quality] release (was Re: [Audacity-devel] bug 528, and another rc?)

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Thanks, Gale!

Let's go ahead with rc2 as release. We have "24-36 hours" estimated from
now to being ready for release, per
wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Process#Process step 9.

- V

On 6/27/2012 7:46 PM, Gale Andrews wrote:
> 
> Summary. 
> 
> * Bug 528: still a P2 (not P1) in my book. I think this bug has
> been assumed to be "clicks in the recording" in the past. I would
> mildly prefer to fix it now if another 48 hours is enough time 
> to test (but of course entirely up to Vaughan).   
> 
> * Building without FFmpeg 0.5 fails: suggest P2, as I believe 
> building without FFmpeg "should" work for FFmpeg 0.5 - 0.8. 
> 
> * Benajamin's patch (P4) does not seem to be working  
> right for me, and needs a Linux developer to complete the 
> commit in any case.
> 
> * If we released now it could be anywhere between 09:00 
> BST Thursday today and 21:00 today before I was ready.
> 
> See below for details. 
> 
> 
> | From Martyn Shaw <mar...@gm...> 
> | Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:17:51 +0100
> | Subject: [Audacity-quality] bug 528, and another rc?
>> I'm seeing in the region of 1000 downloads of both rc1 and rc2, with 
>> very few complaints.  And any complaints are from very picky users 
>> (which of course we welcome).
>>
>> On that basis I think we are good to go.  I have a patch to fix 528, 
>> and so does Vaughan, but I don't see 528 as a blocker anyway.
>>
>> Any other negative feedback from users on the rcs?
>>
>> TTFN
>> Martyn
>>
>> On 27/06/2012 23:58, Vaughan Johnson wrote:
>>> Thanks to Martyn's insight, I've and figured out where the problem is,
>>> and a fix for bug 528. Pretty amazing that it's been in place since
>>> 2004, when multiclip was first added. Very simply, the arithmetic is wrong.
>>>
>>> Will explain further on the Bugzilla entry. But here's the thing I
>>> learned about its severity -- it is very likely to happen *whenever* a
>>> track has two split lines, i.e, 3 clips.
>>>
>>> So I'm considering another rc round. Martyn has told me that's okay with
>>> him. The Mac one is easy, so David, are you up for doing rc3 for tarballs?
> 
> Sorry, I'm responding as soon as I can. 
> 
> No bad feedback on rc2 from what I have seen, but less than 200 people 
> have viewed the Forum announcement.
> 
> I'm still happy with bug 528 as P2, not P1, especially given its longevity.
> But I think this is quite likely behind some of the reports we still see
> of what is described as "Audacity adding clicks in recordings", only
> found when the exports are listened to. These are usually regarded
> as some kind of hardware/Audacity issue so not tracked, but I can 
> recall several possible cases on the Forum that might fit this bug.
> 
> Is there a difference between Martyn's and Vaughan's fix? Does that 
> make it better to leave the fix until after 2.0.1? 
>  
> 
>>> I had written that with 48 hours from the last-posted rc2, we could be
>>> ready to prep release in about 6 hours from now. I see there are some
>>> issues building on Linux.  
> 
> A build issue on Linux isn't usually treated as a release blocker, 
> rightly or wrongly, though it's disappointing it fails for Steve with
> FFmpeg 0.5, where we thought we had backwards compatibility. 
> 
> I'd probably suggest "P2" for a build break for FFmpeg 0.5 - 0.8
> given we claim compatibility with those versions. For later FFmpeg
> versions it's just fact of life that we fall behind a fast moving
> project like FFmpeg, so that usually has a lower rating at least for
> a time.  
> 
> 
>>> Also, please update me on the status of those patches from Benjamin. Now
>>> that they build, are they something we want in 2.0.1?
> 
> I think this is just "Add supported mime type in audacity.desktop"
> (P4):
> http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483 ?
> 
> Benjamin has changed his view again about what the patch should 
> achieve for FLAC and FFmpeg formats - as I now understand it, the 
> patch should make Audacity appear in "Recommended Applications"
> in the Nautilus file browser. It doesn't do that for me on the Ubuntu
> 12.04 machine I have tried - Audacity is only listed in "Other 
> Applications". 
> 
> I have slight qualms about settings being messed up on that 12.04 
> machine; I would be happy to test it on my 11.10 machine given 
> time, however a Linux person must commit the 
> "additional-mime-types.patch" (because ./autogen.sh must be run 
> after applying the patch). 
> 
> --- 
> 
> I have done about 80% of the SF web site modifications (not 
> committed yet). I am yet to update Release Notes 2.0.1 from Bugzilla 
> to Wiki. I probably need an hour or two for that if I want to add 
> recent P3's to bugzilla. I need a break for an hour or so now.   
> 
> I could get called away any time due to the family illness, but I'm 
> here at the moment.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Gale 
>