beta 2 status

[Leo Franchi]

On Sep 5, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Ian Monroe wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
>> Heya everyone,
>>
>> so we still have quite a few bugs milestoned for beta 2:
>> http://tinyurl.com/amarok-beta2
>> Please everyone have a look at them. Who is working on what? Which
>> need to get moved to beta 3?
>> Keep in mind that some of them are _very_ visible to the user and
>> should really be fixed in beta2.
>
> As I talked about in IRC, I don't think we should generally have
> anything blocking a /beta/ release. (Unless its a regression from a
> previous beta: we can't have our betas getting worse!) Our beta
> releases should mostly be time-releases.
>
> I don't see anything thats has-to-be fixed in beta2. Lets not worry
> about how things appear until -rc. The main point of the beta is to
> get more feedback, and the longer people are using beta1 the less
> useful their feedback is as trunk continue to diverges from them.

By your own criteria last.fm would need some serious work---e.g. now  
apparently it only plays one track from a stream then stops, etc. This  
is most definitely a regression, and I think on the whole there have  
been a bunch of issues with last.fm in the last few weeks. Now, since  
we will be upgrading to a new version of the client and API, there is  
no point in fixing the bugs until we have integrated libRadio and  
libScrobble.

so i would say to considering hanging the -beta2 release on mysql-e  
and last.fm

leo

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