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Wed, 11 Nov 2009

Dev call 11/11/2009 minutes

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2.5.4 status

Work is going well. There's a new bug that we should look into. But we've done RC builds and we're sending notes to users who are having problems with 12101 in hopes they'll test.
If things go well, we'll probably do a release in a week.

Luc

Did most of the implementation for subtitle support in VLC with Miro on Windows. Doesn't have a Windows build environment, so he's passing this off to Ben or Will to finish up on Windows.
Hoping to have the repository changes done asap.

Will

Keeping tabs on 2.5.4 rc1 testing progress.
Helped prisioner on IRC get Miro building on Windows with mingw32. Keeping tabs on that progress with the hope that we can switch from building with Visual Studio 2003 to mingw32.
Planning to do the big repository filtering today.
Planning to take on the subtitles in VLC on Windows work for Luc

Ben

Did a bunch of 2.5.4 work.
Finished the fasttypes removal work.
Got some more data on 12301. Going to look into it to see if there's anything we can divulge from it.

Janet

2.5.4 rc1 looks good except for bug 12426.
Continued working on building the test infrastructure for Miro Community. Has two volunteers helping with building test cases.

Paul

Working on Miro Community features: html editing for comments, fixing the submit a video flow, added an RSS feed for categories, ...
Back to working on Miro Community bugs.

Nick

Morgan is going to work on another theme for Miro Community.
Working on making Miro Community easier to modify.

bugzilla

11 bugs/feature-requests created
1 bugs marked DUPLICATE
7 bugs marked FIXED

notes

Are these reports useful to anyone? No one has commented, no one has mentioned them on IRC or email, ... If they're not useful and no one is reading them, then I should be spending my time elsewhere.

[ tags: miro, work | category: /miro | Permalink | 3 comments ]

Posted by sg on Fri Nov 13 06:48:09 2009
Definitely useful. Currently the only way I'm able to somewhat follow developments.

Posted by FSF member from Czech Republic on Fri Nov 13 15:30:58 2009
hello, Great news that 2.5.4RC is out.

please continue with this. i am eagerly checking planet.getmiro.com every day for updates, your report is practically the only thing which is getting the people know what is going on in the team and with the development itself. For open source project communication is vital. I am really surprised that this is practically the only source of information for regular users. Or is there something where can I track the development better (bugzilla probably)? Where is the changelogs for 2.5.4 instance...? This must be more open, or nobody will post comments, not speaking about other contribution...

I think the forums at getsatisfaction.com are not really great (as you can see by the amount of posts)

Please keep up the great job! You dont even know how many people undoubtfully appreciate it and in the future I am convinced there will be so much more of them. Miro and free(as in speech) tv-on-demand is the future... :)

Thank you

Posted by will on Fri Nov 13 15:39:49 2009
I'll keep writing them up, then.

FSF member of the Czech Republic: I'm not sure why you think there's nothing out there and that the project isn't open. We have Get Satisfaction forums:

http://getsatisfaction.com/participatoryculturefoundation/

We have Bugzilla timelines and roadmaps:

http://bugzilla.pculture.org/roadmap.cgi
http://bugzilla.pculture.org/timeline.cgi

We have a web frontend for the repository where all changes get made:

http://git.participatoryculture.org/miro

For every release, we have release notes:

https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki/ReleaseNotes
https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki/2.5ReleaseNotes

We have #miro and #miro-hackers on freenode.net for IRC.

We have a develop mailing list:

http://participatoryculture.org/mailman/listinfo/develop

We have a planet:

http://planet.getmiro.com/

And we have an identi.ca group:

http://identi.ca/group/miro

Seems like we're telling the world as much as we possibly can.

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