A proposal to release 2.9

[Matěj Laitl]

Hi Stefano,
I totally agree, 2.9 should be released to push the work done to users.

I unfortunately won't find time to do it myself, but: try to start making
the release yourself! ;) It should be documented quite well.

If you get stuck or need help with particular tasks, speak up on ML (and CC
me), I'm quite confident somebody from us will help. (people usually
procrastinate "big" tasks, but answering a concrete questions is much
easier)

If somebody has objections against making a release now or different
suggestions, please speak up.

Best,
    Matěj

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:43 PM Stefano Pettini <stefano.pettini at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Matej,
>
> have you received my last message to the mailing list? What's your
> opinion? Sadly the project seems really abandoned, still it doesn't mean we
> can't do a last release. I also wrote to Myriam, she didn't answer, hope
> everything is fine.
>
> Stefano
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stefano Pettini <stefano.pettini at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 10:05 AM
> Subject: A proposal to release 2.9
> To: amarok-devel at kde.org
>
>
> Hi,
>
> it's many years now that Amarok 2.9 is about to be released. The
> saturday-morning emails remember us weekly that there are still a couple of
> regressions since years. In the meanwhile development almost stopped, but
> not completely. I, like many, contributed with small but important patches
> (otherwise we would haven't dedicated time to provide such fixes).
>
> I think it's fair if the work since 2.8 is not wasted and 2.9 is released.
>
> Current regressions are minor bugs, the only annoying thing not working
> anymore is the cover search. But it's not a newly-introduced regression,
> just the world changed and all the services used for cover search become
> not available anymore. It's not a problem not present in 2.8 that people
> would face when updating to 2.9. It's already broken now.
>
> I would disable what doesn't work to not give false impressions, removing
> the broken services from cover search, and release 2.9. This would fix the
> access to wikipedia and other bugs we dedicated time to.
>
> Cover search can be restored later, if developers find time to dedicate to
> it and somebody reviews the available services and select the suitable ones
> for the future Amarok.
>
> Regards,
> Stefano
>
>
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