release text for 2.9 beta - changelog needed

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks to Aditya Sharma for sending me the info.
>>
>> I forgot the link: https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/887
>>
>> Not much there, yet. -v
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
>> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I'm working on the text for the 2.9 beta, but I need some information
>>> and am not able to dig it out right now.
>>>
>>> Can someone shoot me a copy of the changelog or give me some
>>> highlights? I don't have a built copy of Amarok right now, or time to
>>> do that.
>>>
> Thanks a lot for the work, Valorie!
>
> We usually do not provide a full changelog in the beta release, that
> we will do for the 2.9 final. I added a link to the Changelog in the
> text. I also added some additional text.
>
> We have another problem: going through the changelog, it appears that
> some of the GSoC work from 2 years ago was never merged, namely the CD
> rework done by Tatjana. This really should be merged ASAP, as it is
> very likely to fix the problem with CD playing.
>
> Would be nice if this could be done ASAP, so we can respin the beta
> tarball and push this out. I don't think this should be done after the
> beta release, but before!
>
> Regards, Myriam

I'll check back in a few days to see if anything needs updating. IMO
the text looks good for a beta release. I agree that merging in a
possible fix for the CD playing problem would be worthwhile.

Valorie