2.2 beta 2 reminder

[Maximilian Kossick]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have 2 big ticket issues I really want fixed before 2.2 is released
> (i addition to many of the bugs in bugzilla)
>
> First is my battle cry of "Sane default layouts for all". I already
> had a go or 2 at this without much success, but I am going to try to
> do it again, and in a way that avoids having to ship with a binary
> layout file at all.
>
> Secondly, I recently discovered a pretty bad regression in the
> querying of some services, especially Magnatune and Jamendo. One
> symptom is that if you enter a filter that does not match anything, it
> does not clear the tree as expected, but just keeps showing what was
> previous there. I am not sure of ehich change has caused this, but it
> is definitely not an issue that has existed for long.

This is not related to services but happens with "normal" collections
as well. So it was introduced by my changes to the model

> I had intended to work on some of this stuff over the weekend, but
> unfortunately my laptop fried itself before leaving friday...
>
> I really hate being the bearer of bad news, but my gut instinct right
> now tells me that our release plan is too ambitious and that forcing
> out 2.2 in time for Karmic will see us make too many compromises on
> the quality. I have heard some people argue that 2.2 master is
> currently more stable than 2.1.1 in any case and that we can always do
> a series of quick bug fix releases on top of 2.2, but I think we need
> to be careful with this strategy as 2.2.0 is what will get reviewed
> and which will need to win back users, 2.2.xbugfix  releases will not
> generate the same amount of interest.
>
> - Nikolaj
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