Developer News
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This page provides occasional, important news from our development team. News items were previously updated weekly during the busy GSoC 2008 period.
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01 September 2009
- Our GSoC 2009 projects come to a successful conclusion with both students passing, and the bug fixes worked on by the students are released in a new 1.3.9 Beta version. As a result of GSoC, we now have a firmer base for the final push towards a stable 2.0 Release, plus:
- the ability to once again build Help into the program
- the basis of Perl Scripting support
- an experimental pre-record level detection feature to be included in a future Audacity version.
26 April 2009
- We have two GSoC projects and students for 2009. Both projects involve bugfixing which will help us to get to a stable release. Both provide a 'big win' (read large return on effort invested) spin off by the mid term. In one case that means we will have help, which was previously blocking a stable release. In the other it means we will have scripting support from Perl. As well as these changes both projects also have some enhancements which will be worked on mainly in the second half.
7 September 2008
- Four of our GSoC 2008 students passed their evaluations and will now receive their final stipend from Google and a certificate of completion (not to mention that coveted GSoC T-Shirt...). Congratulations to all our students for the code they contributed to improve Audacity, and thanks to everyone who worked so hard on mentoring and administration. We hope all our student participants will continue their involvement with Audacity in future.
- We're now getting to work consolidating and evaluating the new GSoC features for inclusion in the next 1.3.6 Beta. Depending on feedback from 1.3.6 and (crucially) on available resources, we can then identify any GSoC features that are safe and complete enough for the 1.3.7 Release Candidate for 1.4.0 Stable. GSoC features omitted in 1.4.0 will be available again in Beta 1.5.0 and further developed.
- Don't forget, we're happy to try and help if you're trying to compile Audacity and having problems getting the instructions to work. Michael and Paul Livesey recently helped a couple of users with compiling on Mac. Meantime Martyn who normally develops on Windows was trying his hand compiling Audacity against wxWidgets 2.8.8 on an Eee PC running Linux!
- James has been working with Gale on a new, simplified design for our Wiki Home Page, which will probably go live just before 1.4.0 release. We want to make it more easily navigable, but retain links that will take people as directly as possible to what they are looking for. Let us know what you think.
