Developer Meeting Minutes 2011 11 27

1.11 Planning Meeting

Overview: The development team met to discuss the upcoming features and priorities.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/a/mixxx.org/present/edit?id=0ATF16gqHaqo7ZGh2Z3Y4cF83Zm5zYmozZms&hl=en_US

Review of 1.10 Development Cycle

1.10 = big success!

• Loads of features
• Release cycle took about twice as long as we hoped
• May 1st planned release, about 7 months later is actual release...
• Opt for fewer huge features for faster releases (deja vu?)
• Press response is really good!
• Competitors are reacting fast, DJay price drop, etc.
• Build server is fully operational now, does all the release work for us, allows for more testing, etc!

Features for 1.11

Effects 1.0

• a couple more effects
• lays groundwork for something big with Effects 2.0

N-Deck 1.0

• not actually that useful, but important selling point and people still care about it.
• 4 decks enabled in trunk, but not in skins yet.
• Most remaining work is polish and fixing remaining areas that are hardcoded to 2 decks.

AutoDJ 2.0

• Daniel Schurman
• improved auto dj

Waveform 2.0

• coloured waveforms, based on features of audio (low/mid/high)
• Thomas Vincent

Sync 2.0

• nickname for usage of beat offsets and probably master tempo feature
• integration of Queen Mary plugins from VAMP to get better beatgrids and much improved sync.

Controller 2.0

• Sean Pappalardo rewriting MIDI system to add support for HID devices and potentially OSC
• top DJ hardware brands are moving away from USB MIDI and towards HID

Library History

• Continuing with our library improvements

Advanced Search

• GSoC project from 2011, hopefully finish up and get into release

Internationalization

• translations so far are going well
• working on automating process
• still much more work to be done:
• eg. tooltips in skins must be translatable
• eg. keyboard layouts

Timeline

• 3 month dev cycles were unrealistic, the release process itself still takes a lot of time
• build server helped a lot, but let's continue reducing release process
• let's try 4-6 months

• if 1.11 is 4 months,
• is 1 week enough to translate the manual into 5 languages?
• do you have any numbers on how long existing translations took?

Q&A

Shashank Kumar - Wants to work on 7 band equalizer

jus

• Will work on making the manual awesome!
• Would be nice if Native English speaker could review additions to manual
• Is it really possible to get all this done in 4 months?
• RJ: Since there is not much overlap in the owners for each project, I think it's possible. We'll try it and if any project is clearly not going to make it we'll just push it off to 1.12.

Phil will work on:

• crazy effects plugins

Sean may need help with Controller 2.0 stuff

Feature priorities

• prioritize based on improving perception, first impressions of Mixxx. Eg. 4-decks
• Our flanger is tired. Effects will be the #1 priority probably.
• VAMP QM plugins will make a huge difference to user experience.
• Waveform is another big contributor to wow-factor. Need to make it look awesome.