So January ticks inevitably into Feburary and in sympathy with the weather (or the ice cream in the southern hemisphere!) Jokosher has frozen. Yes thats right, we are now in feature freeze for the next release which will be 0.9 and is due for release mid March

In the last week (from the 28th Jan) there have been commits from no less then 7 different people, and a quick bit of maths gives us the shock result that Laszlo is tied with David Corrales to be this weeks most prolific commiter with 17 commits each. Congratulations not only to David and Laszlo but also Johnk, johng, luket, mikes and stuartl for all their hard work across the 47 commits (theres still a few hours to break the 50 barrier so get coding!)

Unsurprisingly pretty much all of these were bug fixes, with the Freesound extension having received some love and care, the search in the “add instrument” dialog being fixed, and many others happening.

The biggest feature is Mixdown profiles, described as a way “a musician can string together a set of things they want to do to export their Jokosher project, and then save that set of things so they can reload it and apply the same things to a different project.”

If you want to help out on the coding front then have a read of http://jokosher.python-hosting.com/wiki/CodeGettingInvolved for how to submit patches. (I’m still the only person whos had to resubmit a patch ) Take a look at https://launchpad.net/products/jokosher/ and pick something, or poke around untill you find one of your own (as a hint Mixdown profiles are new so could stand some serious testing by wouldbe bug fixers, sorry Aq!)

Of course if you dont code we still need your help. The point of a feature freeze is to stop working on new things, and instead fix all the bugs we can find in the existing ones. We can only fix bugs we know about and can reproduce so if you can download the latest svn version, test some features, and report back any problems you find and how to reproduce them (preferably via launchpad, but email and irc are also good, grabing us on the street and ranting at us probably less so ), it would be a huge help.

In other news after long debate Bug 78025 in jokosher “When playing, “Play” button should read “Pause”" , reported on here a cople of weeks ago has been rejected. We’re sticking with the current system. There are also no plans to add a pause button at the moment.

And finally (and slightly offtopic), I recently attended the inaugrual meeting of the West Midlands Python user group here in Birmingham (UK) with members ranging from those with many years of python experience (”my first computer used valves…”) to people who had never written a line of code but were interested in learning. Other python user groups exist so if you dont know python but are interested in getting involved try the tutorials on www.python.org and if they’re all Greek to you (assuming you’re not Greek of course) why not find a user group to try.

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