Release Checklist

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• Following a suggestion by Jeroen, this list has been put on the wiki and the 'Done' items separated from the items that are still to do.

These all for a release candidate start September, and actual release start of November.

This is a companion list to the Documentation Checklist

Essential fixes

• Fix snapping on playback region. Region currently lost.
• Update mouse preferences panel to show new bindings.
• Alert for MP3 invalid bitrate/sample rate combinations.
• Fix halving of bitrate for mono MP3 tracks - bugzilla:182.
• Fix warning dlg if double click MP3 whilst importing MP3 on Mac.
• Fix recovery action if project rate not supported by card.
• Fix resizing meters on Mac jumps to over-under meters.
• Fix lose track selection, but no refresh, when click on track panel background.
• Fix cursor problem when clicking on resizer between tracks.
• Fix Button order in Click-pop Fx.
• Fix 'wedge metadata roll-up open - or get Dominic to fine tune'.
• Address Mihail's dither issue.
• Address Mihail's rtaudio issue (if we don't support it, then update the docs)
• Address Mihail's issue: PA19 uses oss; without load/compile oss support in alsa (snd-pcm-oss), audacity crashes on init PA19.
• Fix ruler font size.
• Fix ruler off-by-a-few pixels...vertical and horizontal rulers.
• Fix ruler overcrowding leads to uneven numbering.
• Fix avoid outrageous zoom when vertical sizing.
• Fix keyboard prefs on Mac...must click list entries twice...not double click.

Essential changes

For progress on help, see Online help outline. Assistance in getting the help together would be much appreciated.

• Update Help.
• details for this section may be moving to Documentation Checklist
• Incorporate experience from user groups / Audacity Forum into help.
• Update download manger info on web site.
• Update Translations

These are other changes to source code that are deemed 'essential'

• Crash recovery - keep record of blockfile changes and assemble project from that.
• Provide help-link on prefs panel.
• Provide 'Unrecognised Audio File Format' dialog with help-link button for more detail.
• For Mac OS X, build a universal binary, or at least an Intel-Mac version

Aim to

• Make selection bar floating. (using slightly less ambitious variant of trial version)
• Re-enabling tooltips on the Mac.
• All keyboard shortcuts changable.
• All Fx dialogs using ShuttleGui.
• Ruler to use same units as selected in selection bar.
• wxListCtrl-version of label track.
• Select input source on Mac
• Greater consistency of '...' in History list.
• Font height correction/adjustment in Label Track for Cyrillic chars.
• Add remaining wxColours to the Themability.
• Play/rec sync in portaudio v19 for Windows
• Snap-to option that does nearest vertical crossing (left-to-right-rising), enabled by default.
• Discuss test harnesses. Possibly write some more test code.
• Springclean docs in root directory, e.g. buglist.txt - update or delete.
• Max zoom - Ruler/track highlighting out of sync.
• Max zoom - samples starting before left edge of track aren't plotted while samples extending past right edge are.
• Max zoom - possible error while plotting negative values.
• Mouse cursor doesn't change when it should if keyboard is used.
• Add preference setting for label track font and possibly fonts in general.

Aim to release at same time

• Two sample alternative themes.
• The new Nyquist plug ins.
• Separate zip of LADSPA plug ins.

Not aiming for for 1.4.0

• Portmixer to support multiple hosts (for DirectSound).
• DirectSound playback (lower latency)
• DirectSound Gui support.
• Labels to move with WaveTrack edits rather than be at fixed times.
• Dominic's pipe-based scripting. [Could lift this into the aim-to list. It depends on status of the code developed so far. We could perhaps use it in test harness, if it is already nearly there.]
• Modeless Fx dialogs. Realtime Fx. [Could not produce stable for 1.4.0 version in the timescale.]
• Vary selection boundaries during loop play, and have sound respond. [This is a small step in real time Fx]
• Audacity on USB (aka Portable Audacity) - mainly avoid using registry.
• Rework Fx dialogs to use spin boxes.
• Scroller for LADSPA effects dialogs.
• Reduce area/width of selection bar.
• Merging of change-pitch-speed Fx.

Totally unsure...

• Remove VST support
• Add FFTW library

Essential fixes - Done

• Fix hotkeys not working until you visit the menus. [Done]
• Fix temp-directory used for Theme on Mac AND linux AND PC. [Done]
• Fix metadata editor crash in debug builds. [Done]
• Fix bug in looped play. [Done]
• Fix Add label adds to first track, not selected track. [Done]
• Fix multi-clip crash. [Done]
• Fix freq-window crash. [Done]
• Fix crash on auto-detection of file format. [Done]
• Fix position playback cursor for transcription toolbar. [Done]
• Fix history-window regression. [Done]
• Fix button release and focus strangeness. [Done]
• Fix button problem when toggling fast. [Done]
• Fix MP3 export to export at project rate. [Done]
• Fix droplists in toolbars not accessible. [Done]
• Fix missing mnemonics. [Done]
• Fix extensions in uppercase not recognised. [Done]
• Fix _()/wxT() combinations leading to only partial i8ln. [Done]
• Fix some cases of ruler-clicking play [Done].
• Fix collision of multi-tool clip drag with (new) play-drag. [Done]
• Fix Flac-import broken on windows by using text mode for files. [Done]
• Fix Import MP3 to respect default sample format rather than always use float. [Done]
• Address Mihail's PA19 wo snd-pcm-os issue and ?????? dev name. [Done. Mihail confirmed]
• Find scenario to reproduce stray dotted vertical line. [Done]
• Fix dotted vertical line. [Done]
• Scrollbars on Linux "randomly" disappear when zooming, adding tracks, ... [Done]
• Fix need Ctrl+Shift_F twice to fit in window. [Done]
• Fix slider has no effect in BassBoost Fx. [Done]
• Fix tools not cycling properly using keyboard. [Done]
• Fix preferences project rate does not affect main project rate. [Done]

Aim to - Done

• TimeTextCtrl colours themable - and new defaults. [Done]
• Short version of Transcription Toolbar, with just the playback speed control. [Done]
• Fix Tone-gen combo box not accepting clicks (when using ShuttleGui). [Done]
• Generate effects to include 'chirp'. [Done].
• Finish HistoryWindow changes. [Done]
• Playback position dialogs ('[' and ']') to use TimeTextCtrl. [Done]
• TimeTextCtrl accepts mouse-wheel. [Done]
• Cyrilic in Label Track boxes. [Done]

Aim to release at same time - Done

• Doxygen documentation in place. [Done]