Windows Store and future releases

[Matthieu Gallien]

On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:25:04 PM CEST Nate Graham wrote:
> Hello,
> I strongly support the plan to get Elisa up on the Windows store.
> However in my opinion there are two bugs that really need to be fixed
> before we can make it available in so public a place:

I agree on that approach. I should maybe push a beta release and get it built 
in the format needed by the Windows store in order to continue to prepare the 
application publication. That would allow fixing blocking bugs and test the 
package (and maybe fix new blocking bugs due to that package format).

> - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406466 (When adding more than one
> albums at a time to the playlist, songs are added in mixed-up order)
> 
> - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412334 (Now Playing view no
> longer shows or updates metadata or lyrics until you manually re-play
> the current song)
> 
> I think we'll get bad reviews if we ship it to the store with these
> prominent bugs still present.

If you notice other issues like that, please also report them.

> Nate
> 
> On 9/25/19 12:39 PM, Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I believe that releasing Elisa to the Windows store is important.
> > 
> > At the same time, I am kind of blocked by the latest stable release (i.e.
> > 0.4.2) that is currently being blocked by an infinite loop at start
> > (probably a binding loop according to the warnings).
> > 
> > My plan would be to release more or less the current master branch (after
> > a
> > two weeks string freeze and bug fixing period) now. This version is
> > working
> > fine on Windows and look much better.
> > 
> > We could then go back to the original plan that is to integrate the
> > coordinated releases of applications made by KDE.
> > 
> > What do you think ?
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > 
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