Developer News
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This page occasionally provides news from our development team. News items were previously updated weekly during the busy GSoC 2008 period.
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- The details of how to do label linking are discussed taking account of both underlying functions and crucially user interface too. As a result a much cleaner approach to what we currently have is proposed, and the fact that labels themselves are a side issue here becomes clear.
- Switch over from CVS on sourceforge to SVN on google-code complete. E-mail archive of commit messages at google groups, also history of changes. Significant speed improvement for downloads, more stable infrastructure and nice web-based code browser. Cool.
- Audacity 1.3.12 Beta release planned for 1st March with a double freeze from the 22nd Feb. This will not include new features, but should incorporate fixes to more bugs, small usability improvements and may benefit from some changes resulting from code reviews.
- Audacity 1.3.11 Beta released. Essentially a maintenance release to fix bugs reported since 1.3.10, notably a problem exporting partial selections.
11 December 2009
- Some new ideas for GSoC 2010 have been posted. Planning for a possible GSoC 2010 begins.
10 December 2009
- 'Marty' Goddard given temporary CVS write access for agreed check-in of new mod-script-pipe commands he has developed.
- Audacity 1.3.10 Beta released. This has numerous small improvements and fixes to bugs. It's also the first version to have the new much improved html manual.
28 Nov 2009
- Al Dimond Given CVS write access after discussion in the technical council.
- Experimental bugzilla installation set up. We're considering moving the Release Checklist to this as a proper bugtracker, if we feel it will make our life easier. Otherwise not. Quite a lot of details still to be worked out. In particular we want to be able to more easily produce release notes (P3 and higher issues) and the text for release notes is significantly different from what we use for issue titles.
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!
