Small summer status overview + request for some opinions

[Tuomas Nurmi]

Hi everyone,

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/blob/master/ChangeLog has been filling
up nicely and we're also clearly under 500 open bugs now. I merged a reimplemented
Similar Artists context applet earlier today, which was the final thing I wanted
to have included in the next version.

Although there haven't been that many new new features, there's been a huge amount
of Qt6 compatibility preparation work, however. That shouldn't affect Qt5/KF5
functionality, but it naturally carries some kind of regression risk (additionally,
minimum KF version has been bumped to 5.89), so I figured it's probably a good idea
to make the next release 3.1 already, and do a beta for it first. The beta will
be  tagged in a couple of days, with 3.1 release maybe in early August.

KF5.89's a nice dependency, as it's apparently still compatible with Kubuntu 22.04
LTS. Maybe there'll be a 3.1.1 a bit later which doesn't yet raise the dependency,
but after that it's time to go to 5.108 so all the remaining deprecated KF parts
can be replaced ( https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/issues/8 ). That'll
probably be called 3.2 then, and maybe it will at least be buildable with Qt6/KF6
already.

Wishing everyone a nice week
Tuomas


Kirjoitit torstaina 27. kesäkuuta 2024 16.18.50 UTC+3:
> Hi everyone
> I thought I'd write a couple of words of status update here.
> 
> There's been some work on pruning outdated documentation in online resources etc ongoing,
> and also removing outdated/unused bits in Amarok code, too.
> 3.0.2 will come probably in July; there are already a bunch of nice improvements listed in
> Changelog: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/blob/master/ChangeLog
> and some more will come before release. Open bugs/wishes are now at 503, and it'll
> probably go under 500 before release. (I think I'll also close all the bugs reported
> against the latest Windows version 2.8.0 from 2013 soon - no point in keeping them open
> as they've been mostly fixed since, but not going to land on any Windows user before someone
> wants to make Windows-3.0's happen)
> 
> Qt6 build keeps progressing a bit further, bit-by-bit, while everything's still staying
> Qt5-compatible too. I have no idea yet if there will be a point when same codebase can be
> built with Qt5 and Qt6, but at least getting as near as that as possible is probably a good idea.
> 
> There's also one pending change I'd be very happy to hear more opinions on:
> https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/merge_requests/107
> As it kind of effects how credits / info on earlier contributors are displayed, I'd be happy to
> hear if the idea of removing the openDesktop.org integration sounds justifiable to other
> people, too, before merging (some screenshots demonstrating the state are shown on the
> merge request).
> Additionally, I'd maybe like to remove the donors tab altogether. It lists 3 people who
> contributed to Roktober 2012 or earlier. Maybe it would be time to.
> 
> Wishing you a nice summer Thursday!
> Tuomas
>