On Tuesday July 29th, we'll be having a day of code to get release 1.6.0 ready to go. If you want to help, hop on our IRC channel (#mixxx on Freenode) and we'll get you involved.
There's tons of stuff to do, here's a list:
Coding/Bug fixing obviously needs doing, visit the
launchpad tracker and talk to the developers
Testing will be needed at various points on various platforms throughout the day
Documentation needs plenty of work
Especially the
manual could use a lot of work
New website design is in progress, anyone with useful php/javascript/jquery skills should talk to
asantoni (
IRC)
Could use some new high quality skins if there are any designers out there
Help us finish the new manual. The
PDF manual currently bundled with Mixxx is ancient, and the original source document for it is lost to the sands of time. For 1.6.0, we've decided to rewrite the manual. We need your help writing sections for it though - some of you know Mixxx very well and doubtlessly have better writing skills than us. Take a crack at filling in one of the empty sections of
the Mixxx 1.6.0 manual. In particular:
Many of the interface elements in the
UI Overview are incomplete - a few sentences will suffice for each.
Figure out what we're missing. Take a peek at what we have, and try to think of any big points that we've missed in the manual. Comb over
the old manual as well for ideas.
Test Serato CD support. Got a CDJ? Have a CD discman or anything that plays CDs? Download the Serato CD wave, burn it to a CD, and test to see if you can control Mixxx via your CDJ or discman.
Create the massive 1.6.0 changelog. Go through the
Mixxx Blog archives, and find the release announcements for 1.6.0 beta 1, 2, 3, and 4. A changelog was included with each release - copy and paste the changelog bullets from each announcement into one gigantic document. Email that to someone on
IRC.
Help us reproduce crazy Windows bugs. We don't have very many Windows developers (or developers with Windows installed even), so it's hard for us to track down certain Windows-only bugs. In particular, the following three bugs have been driving us crazy:
Program fails to open - We think we've fixed this in Beta4, but we can't get in touch with the person who reported the bug initially, so we don't know for sure. If anyone can reproduce this on Windows, or confirmed that the problem was fixed for them when upgrading from Beta3 to Beta4, please let us know.
Mixxx doesn't exit cleanly - Same deal, we may have fixed this already, but we don't know. Do
you have this problem on Windows? Get in touch with us and we'll try to track it down with you.
Runtime error on exit - A user reported this problem with Vista Home Premium + SP1. Are you using Vista? Does Mixxx work for you? Yes or no, please let us know. If you're encountering this problem too, please get in touch on
IRC or by email and we'll track it down with you.
Let's keep track of how productive we were:
make ov_fopen ifdef'd for Windows
remove crufty unsupported mouse controls from the preferences
added clear button to the search box
many SConscript changes / fixes
added support for a new MIDI controller : NuMark TotalControl
found and filed a lot of Windows bugs (hooray!)
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new artwork for 1.6.0 website
QDoubleSpinbox stuff by Martin
Serato CD support tested and fixed. Thanks to Sean and Mark!
Figured out this VC Manifest thing causes crashes on startup with some Windows machines.
