Planning an alpha2 (2.9.76)

[Pedro de Carvalho Gomes]

As far as I remember, the page was latest updated by Myriam Schweingruber

On 2024-04-03 11:22, Tuomas Nurmi wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> as things are coming together quite nicely, I'd like to ask if anyone has any
> comments on the idea of a next release, which could be alpha2 at this point.
>
> There are still some MRs & things I'd like to have a look at before that (a
> short review of them a bit later in this mail), but I'd guess everything would
> be set around mid-month (e.g. somewhere around 13th - 17th April)
>
> Looking at https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/blob/master/
> release_scripts/RELEASE_HOWTO most of the things seem clear (or not relevant
> at the moment). Documentation at https://invent.kde.org/sdk/releaseme is
> probably more up to date at some places, and RELEASE_HOWTO can be updated
> accordingly when such things are encountered during releasing.
>
> Reading through the steps, I think (in addition to probably filing a sysadmin
> request to get more bugzilla permissions for my account)
>
>   * Update the amarok.kde.org front-page
> is the only one where I don't have the required access myself. Would anyone
> have more insight on this step?
>
>
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>
> On improvements still a bit WIP / testing / comments pending:
>
> Improvements to albums, current track, equalizer and photos context applets
> https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/merge_requests/65
> received a fine comment related to HIG. I reflected the UI changes based on it
> and will try some adjustments a bit later, before merging. (=1 more commit and
> ready to be merged)
>
>
> Fresh set of de-deprecations in MR!79: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/
> amarok/-/merge_requests/79
> After that one, the only deprecated Qt thing left is
> QNetworkConfigurationManager, for which's usecases the replacement
> QNetworkInformation was introduced only in Qt 6.1, so that'll have to wait.
> (On KF side there's a bit more to do, especially related to KPluginInfo, but
> they'd need bumping KF5 requirement quite a bit and are not worth the effort
> right now, I think)
> Although the changes (are/should be) pretty straightforward, I'd like to merge
> them in a couple of days to have at least some time to receive any possible
> issue reports from nightly build users before the alpha2 release (= ready for
> merging after maybe some extra testing still)
>
>
> Fix script console crashing when reopened.
> https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/merge_requests/76
> Due to fact that there's also pending warning in the dialog, which will only
> be shown once on KF6, https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/
> merge_requests/78 , and the fact that Amarok 2.0 scripts available on
> store.kde.org (don't work? are not likely to work?), I'm pondering if the
> button to open KNewStuff for scripts should be hidden, at least for the moment.
>
> I thought maybe getting the radio_station_service and librivox_service working
> and included would have been a fitting goal, but reading Pedro's take on this
> I'm not confident on that anymore. However, I didn't look any deeper than what
> I've written on the MR and I definitely am not sure about anything related to
> script engine, but I have no problem with the idea of leaving it hidden for
> now.
> Maybe the script console should still be left available as is, as it can be
> used to do something sensible with some of the API calls listed at https://
> community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Script_API
>
>
>
> There's also the earlier MR on fixing more stalling issues on random mode which
> I haven't myself inspected yet, but will later
> https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/merge_requests/31
>
>
> And I'll also have a stab at playlist length display, as referred to on bugs
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324452 No or wrong playlist length (time)
> displayed when adding files per drag&drop from outside Amarok
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281143 Length of filtered playlist is not
> calculated - total playlist length displayed
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316751 Amarok does not show correct total
> playing time of a playlist during the first loading,
>
> a bit later, but before alpha2. (I've tried some prototypes and have an idea
> what to do)
>
> I'm happy to hear any comments or extra insight
>
> Cheers
> Tuomas
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