Coding Day Activities

Coding Day

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

Available Non-Coding Tasks:

• 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.
• The wave can be downloaded here:http://rane.com/scratchlivecontrol.zip
• Report your findings on IRC and here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/186341
• 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.

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Available Coding Tasks:

• Cleanup Input Controllers Prefs. The "Input Controllers" preferences pane contains unsupported (broken) mouse control stuff. Remove this from dlgprefmidi.cpp and dlgprefmididlg.ui and send us a patch.
• QSpinBox->QDoubleSpinBox in Interface Prefs. The temporary and permanent pitch/rate buttons options in the interface preferences pane uses QSpinBox controls, which only support integer numbers. The value in the spinbox controls is actually divided by 1000 before being applied to Mixxx's engine (a value of 400 turns into a pitch bend of 0.4%). Your task is to change the QSpinBox controls to QDoubleSpinBox and remove the division by 1000, so it's WYSIWYG. Make your changes to dlgprefcontrols.cpp and dlgprefcontrolsdlg.ui and send us a patch. Please test the hell out of this before sending us a patch because we'd rather not break this before 1.6.0.