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[thelusiv]

Can I have a list of the cars that will be included in this release(the same as the last time?) to fix their mass distribution at least.

I like the idea of only distributing a minimal set of working data, which is known to be licensable under GPL. To my knowledge, we could package VDrift with the XS and TL2, as these are original cars made for VDrift, as well as the track Rouen which as far as I know is our only GPL-licensable track. We really should do this to address this problem:
http://vdrift.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=665

Should the replay functionality be disabled. Or should we add a warning in the gui. See: http://vdrift.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=1367

We could probably spend a lot of time and menu space adding warnings about broken things in the GUI. I think a "Known Issues" section of the release notes would be enough to let the user know about any possible problems. I don't think we have to fully disable the replay system, after all, it still works fine as long as you don't drive into walls.

I'd like to look into the AWD issue reported by zimluura. Fix export scripts.

The export scripts aren't included in VDrift packages, so I would say leave that until after release. If we don't include any AWD cars in the package then we could wait until after release to fix that as well.

The F1 engine sounds strange(to me). Need to compare with the previous release.

I noticed that too - the popping in the engine sound. This bug has been a problem before and it looks like it's back. 2010-06-30 didn't have it.

Suspension compatibility warning should only be emitted in the debug builds?

I think since we don't have anything like the auto-updater Joe posted about, we should probably complain very loudly about incompatible data. Most users won't see the logs anyway, so go ahead and make it output at car load time for both debug and non-debug builds.