[jokosher-devel] Heading towards 1.0

["Jono Bacon" <jonobacon gmail com>]

Hi all,

I have a chat a chat with some of you recently regarding when and how
we are going to approach our 1.0 release. It is clear we want 1.0 to
be a rock-solid release that is suitable for creating, recording and
editing music, podcasts and whatever else. A 1.0 release not only
needs a stable feature set and extensions API, but also needs our
fixes in GStreamer to be stable so everything runs well. As such, I
think we will want to factor the GStreamer guys into this process
where possible.

> From some discussions, I think we are all largely in agreement that
1.0 should include enough features to record music. 0.2 has most of
these core features already in, and the following are also required
for a 1.0 release:

* multi-input recording (recording a number of instruments at the
same time) - this will require some re-factoring of the recording
engine.
* a complete and stable extension API (this should mature with the
0.2 release when people start hacking on extensions).
* support for multi-input LADSPA effects - currently single input
effects are supported.
* would be nice to have the Extension Browser in so users can browse
extensions.jokosher.org and install them over the net.
* would also be nice to have Live Help included - a noddy IRC client
that talks to #jokosher-users on irc.freenode.net. This means users
can get help from inside Jokosher - all part of the integrated
experience.

I talked about this with some of you on IRC and the suggestion is that
we want to aim to get a final release included in Edgy+1, and this
deadline date should be around February. Now, we want to have a decent
release candidate process for 1.0 to get rid of bugs, so the suggested
approach is that we have 1.0RC for around the beginning of Feb, and
this release will certainly go into edgy+1. We can then have a month
or so of bugfixing before releasing 1.0 final. This way, Edgy+1 gets a
release and we also get some good feedback and bugfixes.

So, lets get 0.2 finished, which will allow people to do real work
with Jokosher, and then lets look at getting the polish in for 1.0. :)

 Jono