cleanup and update controller mappings info #743
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| with a number of mappings for various devices. There are two levels of | ||
| controller mappings: | ||
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| * **Mixxx Certified Mappings**: These mappings are verified by the Mixxx | ||
| Development Team. | ||
| * **Community Supported Mappings**: These mappings are provided and have been | ||
| verified as working by the Mixxx community, but the Mixxx Development Team is | ||
| unable to verify their quality because we don't have the devices ourselves. | ||
| They might have bugs or rough edges. |
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I think we should mention that by default all mappings are essentially community supported mappings (or should be treated as such). Otherwise ppl may expect the "certified mappings" level support for all currently included mappings.
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I'm not sure I understand.
If we don't make the distinction between certified and community-supported anymore (and the wiki page with that outdated table wasn't linked anyway), where would the 'certified' expectation come from?
I mean, even though built-in mappings vary greatly in terms of (code) quality, we don't have a quality rating or such for mappings, so if someone discovers issues we'll deal with it individually for each issue, don't we?
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where would the 'certified' expectation come from?
From the fact that the mappings ship with mixxx instead of downloaded from some random source online. Compared with other DJ software, mappings shipped with a software are expected to be top notch (1st party support). That is not the case for us and I think we should make that clear. This text part previously made that clear by the official vs community supported distinction. Now that we remove the distinction, we should make clear that users should generally assume community support and not 1st party developer priority support. Does that make sense?
I don't think it makes sense anymore to mention the categories Mixxx Certified Mappings and Community Supported Mappings. The wiki page with these mappings isn't linked here, and it's not up-to-date.. at all.
We have built-in mappings and we mention the user mappings forum, that should suffice IMHO.
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It's not required anymore to restart Mixxx in order to update the mapping list -- either select another mapping or close & reopen the Preferences does the trick.