Dev call 01/05/2011

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

Welcome to 2011!

Miro 4.0 status (roadmap)

  • working on metadata support, device syncing, performance enhancements, extensions, streaming to other devices (ipad, ...), ...

  • working on project infrastructure: wiki, nightlies, nightly runs of unit tests, ...

Geoffrey:

  • continued working on pydaap--streaming is working now

  • working on getting Miro and Miro Video Converter into the Mac app store

  • wrote up a long missive regarding signal and concurrency issues

Kaz:

  • worked on automatic ratings based on play/skip counts

  • worked on coverart extraction from metadata

  • worked on views and other things, too

Asheesh:

  • merged Duke code into main so we're not working on two different Miro Community code bases

  • finishing up tiers

Paul:

  • worked on refactoring Item code so there's more shared code between Item and DeviceItem to make it easier for other data sources

  • worked on handling generic devices

Will:

  • Worked on a bunch of analysis stuff.

  • Started tackling the flashscraper -> vidscraper project.

  • Feeling kind of overwhelmed with how much is going on and what's on his plate.

Ben:

  • Worked on GtkTreeModel performance issues when displaying and manipulating item views.

Order of business:

  • Morgan is almost done with new ui mockups.

  • Talked about how to do ui workflow and whether to have one person do all the ui implementation or spread it out.

  • Elected chiefs of various domains:

    • Electing Ben as Chief Architect.

    • Electing Geoffrey as Chief OSX wrangler

    • Electing Kaz as Chief Linux wrangler

    • Electing Will as Chief infrastructure wrangler (unit tests, localizations, bugzilla, wiki,

    • Electing Will as Chief Windows wrangler

    • Electing Janet as Chief of QA

    • Electing Paul as Chief of Everything Else

  • Talked about GtkTreeModel performance issues.

  • git master is in pretty heavy flux right now and because of that nightlies are pretty unstable--use them at your own risk. This will sort itself over time when there are fewer massive changes being made.

  • PCF is looking to hire another Miro developer and a System Administrator. See the jobs page for more details.

  • Miro is developed by a community of people including you! If you can't contribute your time and work, please consider contributing funding by donating. Your money goes directly to ongoing development of Miro and related projects. See http://pculture.org/about/ for more details on these projects.

  • Did you know there's a Miro User Manual? If you haven't looked at it yet, it's worth taking a look at. You can find it at http://getmiro.com/userguide/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

  • 29 bugs/feature-requests created

  • 1 bugs marked DUPLICATE

  • 7 bugs marked FIXED

  • 2 bugs marked INCOMPLETE

  • 4 bugs marked INVALID

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