Miro 4.0 status (roadmap)

• lots of flux in git-master, but the code is starting to stabilize
• 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, ...
• past the codefreeze--switching to mini-deadlines for important functionality.

Ben:

• got a lot of ui overhaul stuff done: main display, item details widget
• lot of other things to work on

Paul:

• worked on ui overhaul stuff: top chrome, sidebar tweaks, and investigating complex issues
• working on Amazon stores-related things

Geoffrey:

• picked up OSX titlebar bug
• worked on sharing issues and tidying up the code

Kaz:

• worked on tablist issues and list view columns

Will:

• worked on windows build environment issues
• fixed up a bunch of P1 bugs, synced translations, ...

Jonas:

• worked on magnet uri support and landed it today
• worked on resume playback changes

Asheesh:

• worked on paypal payment system for MC tiers
• worked on the POV theme

Order of business:

• Talked about associating Miro with magnet uris; the problem is that magnet uris require a protocol association, so there's nothing in Miro that currently does this. The other problem is that the different platforms have different conventions for associations. Jonas is going to create a few tickets and we'll figure out what to do going forward.
• We're pushing on P1 bugs--going to give mini-deadlines a break for a week.
• 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.
• 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://manual.getmiro.com/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 134 bugs/feature-requests created
• 6 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 1 bugs marked INVALID
• 8 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 3 bugs marked WONTFIX
• 73 bugs marked FIXED

Miro 4.0 status (roadmap)

• lots of flux in git-master, but the code is starting to stabilize
• 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, ...
• past the codefreeze--switching to mini-deadlines for important functionality.

Will:

• worked on subtitle issues; discovered some irritating things about our subtitle support
• worked on p1 issues

Paul:

• worked on device support problems
• switched to working on ui overhaul stuff

Kaz:

• working on custom table headers; will probably implement this on OSX and skip GTK platforms
• continuing to work on the edit item dialog

Jonas:

• working on magnet uri support; keeps bumping into metadata-related issues
• mostly done with magnet uri support

Geoffrey:

• merged in transcoding branch last week
• working on polishing and fixing edge-case issues
• mostly done with things now--just some edge-case issues to handle

Ben:

• working on ui overhaul bugs; having some problems but thinks he can get the majority of it done
• after that, will work on a variety of small ui bugs

Janet:

• spent a lot of time testing device support and sharing support

Order of business:

• We missed the codefreeze. We've got a lot accomplished, but there are still problems that need to be addressed. We're pushing out the deadlines a bit and also switching to a mini-deadline model.
• Next mini-deadline is for user-interfaces issues. That's end of Friday.
• 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.
• 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://manual.getmiro.com/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 78 bugs/feature-requests created
• 4 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 1 bugs marked INVALID
• 6 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 1 bugs marked WONTFIX
• 52 bugs marked FIXED
• 1 bugs marked INCOMPLETE

Miro 4.0 status (roadmap)

• lots of flux in git-master, but the code is starting to stabilize
• 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, ...
• one week until code freeze

Janet:

• spent the last couple of days testing device syncing support
• having internet connectivity problems, a macbook with a broken backlight, and a dead laptop
• tested subtitle support
• worked on litmus tests for devices

Geoffrey:

• merged transcoding branch
• continued working on P1 bugs

Ben:

• worked on P1 bugs, performance issues, and bunch of other things

Jonas:

• worked on magnet uri support---has it working from the Download Item menu

Kaz:

• worked on the new edit item menu
• added import progress meter

Paul:

• worked on ui overhaul bugs and device syncing bugs

Will:

• subtitles have a lot of problems, so I'm working on those
• spent a little time working with Miro on Windows
• continuing to work on bugs

Order of business:

• How do we extend our device support? We talked about adding a "report this device" button. Talked about putting together a form backed by a Google app to collect information from users.
• 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.
• 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://manual.getmiro.com/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 74 bugs/feature-requests created
• 6 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 6 bugs marked INVALID
• 4 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 65 bugs marked FIXED
• 2 bugs marked INCOMPLETE

Miro 4.0 status (roadmap)

• lots of flux in git-master, but the code is starting to stabilize
• 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, ...

Will:

• Did a bunch of stuff last week.
• I'm sitting on a couple of ui overhaul enhancements, but they're pretty minor. After those, I'll be working on P1 bugs.

Ben:

• Working on performance issues. There are several places that are problematic that still need work.
• Hasn't really looked at the roadmap in a while.
• Now has a working Macbook.

Geoffrey:

• Doing great!
• Finishing up work on transcoding, but it's under control. It's tight timing-wise, but he's pretty sure he'll hit a March 1st code freeze.

Kaz:

• Still working on a few new ui things. Both should be pretty doable and shouldn't take a lot of time.
• Still has a few tweaks to do and implementation of things on OSX.
• Overall is in good shape for the code freeze as long as nothing substantial comes up.

Jonas:

• Working on magnet uri related changes. There are a lot of problems and it's not clear how much work there is to do for this.
• Ben agreed to work with Jonas on magnet uri stuff.

Janet:

• Sikuli rc2 came out and it's awesome. Now we can execute tests on Linux and Windows.
• Needs ui overhaul bugs finished in order to continue working on Sikuli test cases.

Paul:

• Paul's mic doesn't work, but we think he's doing ok.

Asheesh:

• Miro Community 1.2 is the awesome! Life in Miro Community is all pina coladas and sunshine.
• Excited for a MC 1.2 release in the very near future.

Order of business:

• Where are we at?
  • Unfinished ui overhaul bugs are blocking Janet from writing tests.
  • Magnet URI project might be big--we'll know more soon.
  • Transcoding should be working by March 1st, but it's tight timing-wise.
  • WindowsServer problem is probably going to take serious time to work out.
  • There are still some unresolved performance issues.
• Otherwise everyone thinks we're doing ok regarding the March 1st code freeze except me. I'm concerned that the continued state of flux suggests we're not going to make it or we're not going to have a March 1st Miro that's stable.
• 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.
• 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://manual.getmiro.com/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 71 bugs/feature-requests created
• 10 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 3 bugs marked INVALID
• 12 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 1 bugs marked WONTFIX
• 54 bugs marked FIXED
• 7 bugs marked INCOMPLETE

Miro 4.0 status (roadmap)

• lots of flux in git-master, but the code is starting to stabilize
• 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, ...

Janet:

• writing up lots of bugs as she builds new Sikuli test cases
• waiting on Sikuli release

Will:

• fixed the torrent directory bug
• working on reworking fastresume--going carefully to make sure i'm not creating new problems
• Windows build box keeps hanging at night which blows, but I'm going to keep kicking this can down the road as much as possible
• haven't spent much time on Windows recently, but will spend more time on it soon

Paul:

• working on implementing ui overhaul tickets

Geoffrey:

• worked on transcoding for streaming between Miro and other systems
• worked on DAAP code

Kaz:

• reworked scrolling for views to fix a bunch of problems
• working on saving display state between Miro runs

Jonas:

• worked on shuffle/repeat work and making it save per display between Miro runs
• working on support for magnet uris

Ben:

• worked on infolist fixes
• noticed some things in the interface is still slow and is going to look at them in the near-term

Order of business:

• Talked a little bit about the strings and code freezes.
• Talked about the downloading tab sorting and how downloads flick around. Janet's going to write up a bug for it.
• Migrating fastresumedata. Will will test to see if a 3.5.1 to 4.0 upgrade with ditching fast resume data is ok, but otherwise plans to dump the fastresume data.
• 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 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://manual.getmiro.com/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 63 bugs/feature-requests created
• 8 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 1 bugs marked INVALID
• 3 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 1 bugs marked WONTFIX
• 46 bugs marked FIXED
• 8 bugs marked INCOMPLETE

I just removed the !miro group identi.ca feed from Planet GetMiro. There isn't much compelling stuff in it plus all the things I was denting are now in my blog feed since I'm aggregating my dents there.

I made this decision on my own without consulting anyone. If this bothers you, let me know either in the comments or send me an email.

Note: I'm changing the way I denote the date so it's not ambiguous. Sorry about that.

Miro 4.0 status (roadmap)

• lots of flux in git-master, but the code is starting to stabilize
• 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, ...

Nick:

• Morgan's family had the flu last week which is why ui overhaul related questions are taking a while to get answered.

Ben:

• Worked on sorting and playlists.
• Planning to work on new InfoList issues.

Janet:

• Lost internet connection for most of the week.
• Worked on sikuli tests--most of them are done now.
• Implementing tests in sikuli has uncovered lots of issues.

Geoffrey:

• Continuing to work on sharing and other things on his plate.

Kaz:

• Worked on views and metadata stuff.

Paul:

• Worked on device syncing.
• Worked on ui overhaul bugs. Updated the sidebar.

Jonas:

• Worked on shuffle/repeat and playback.

Asheesh:

• Working hard on Miro Community 1.2--hopefully will have a beta out this week.

Will:

• Windows build box keeps hanging. Seems like it's predominantly related to when the cron job to build the nightly kicks off, but it's hung at other times, too. Hopefully we can get through this dev cycle before we have to replace the Windows build box because that'll take a chunk of time to do.
• Investigating libtorrent issues of which there are several and they're complicated.
• Looking at storing fast resume as a downloader-specific thing and storing it in files rather than the Miro sqlite database.

Order of business:

• Welcome Jonas! This is the largest group of Miro developers we've ever had (6). Hopefully we can keep this group going forward, but it depends on funding.
• Talked about how to fix the handling of the fastresume data for torrents. Will is going to change the downloader so that it's not passing this data to the Miro process and instead is managing it itself in files.
• Talked about magnet uri support. Will thinks this is a big project and is hesitant to do it because of its bigness. So we assigned it to Jonas because he's new and isn't scared of anything, yet.
• 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 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://manual.getmiro.com/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 69 bugs/feature-requests created
• 3 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 1 bugs marked INVALID
• 7 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 2 bugs marked WONTFIX
• 41 bugs marked FIXED
• 6 bugs marked INCOMPLETE

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, ...

Ben:

• Landed InfoList performance changes.
• Going to work on bug fixes.

Geoff:

• Merged the sharing stuff.
• Spent time fixing things that were broken.
• Will continue working on fixing broken things.
• Planning to work on transcoding next--that's the last big thing on his list for Miro 4.0.

Kaz:

• Hoping to push the new view menu soon.
• Add metadata versioning.
• Working on showing item metadata scanning progress.
• Working on custom widgets for list view headers.

Will:

• Spent some time getting Miro running MeeGo.
• Spent some time working on switching Miro on Windows to gstreamer--too much work, so I'm going to defer it until a future version.
• Is it me or is our repository not git bisectable now? How can we fix this?

Asheesh:

• Working on a MC 1.2 and hoping to fix it by next Wednesday.
• Working with Rob to deploy patch to MC servers which tells us how long Apache is taking to render certain pages.

Paul:

• Worked on device stuff and the new connect section.
• Working on ui tickets.

Order of business:

• Talked about ItemInfo, ItemSource, and ItemHandler
• Talked about ui overhaul and those bits should be going faster now. New design work should be landing in tickets in the next few days.
• Talked about how git bisect doesn't work now. Kaz said he has steps to work around that. He's going to send an email about how he's working around the problem.
• 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://manual.getmiro.com/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 59 bugs/feature-requests created
• 6 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 1 bugs marked INVALID
• 9 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 1 bugs marked WONTFIX
• 31 bugs marked FIXED
• 7 bugs marked INCOMPLETE

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, ...

Will:

• upgraded libtorrent 0.15.5
• will work on gstreamer switch next

Ben:

• continuing to work on performance fixes--wrote a bunch of unit tests and now it's a matter of integrating it into the widget frontend

Geoffrey:

• looking into Bonjour on Windows. Apple ships a big metapackage (printing services) that includes the core libraries. Pidgin open source project advises you to install the library.
• looking at ways to detect whether the user has installed the printing services.
• started looking into transcoding and working through the technical issues.
• going to start wrapping things up in the daap branch and get ready to merge it into master.

Paul:

• fixed a bunch of item-overhaul related bugs.
• added amazon store support

Janet:

• sent out a hitlist of bugs that should get fixed to make testing easier
• sikuli is the awesome!

Asheesh:

• sprint on MC 1.2 stuff
• sprint on Duke bug fixing
• planning to focus on performance issues

Kaz:

• worked on the view menu which is basically working

Official business:

• Should we switch Miro on Windows to use gstreamer? Worth trying out and if it gets too hard, we can defer it.
• Should we switch Miro on Windows to use webkit? Worth trying out and if it gets too hard, we can defer it.
• Talked about short-term solutions for keeping us all on the same page. Worth doing a check-in/check-out on IRC using a tag.
• Talked about moving our git repositories elsewhere. Benefits are that we don't have to host it and deal with hosting work. Asheesh is going to look into this.
• 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://manual.getmiro.com/.

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 35 bugs/feature-requests created
• 5 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 2 bugs marked INVALID
• 5 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 2 bugs marked WONTFIX
• 19 bugs marked FIXED
• 1 bugs marked INCOMPLETE

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, ...

Janet:

• playing catch-up on testing for Miro 4.0
• updating tests with Sikuli, found a problem which they fixed (thank you super cool Sikuli developers!)
• tested Miro Video Converter
• tested Universal Subtitles
• started testing the Miro app for the iPad

Kaz:

• working on the new ui--tried to get it done for the call, but it's not quite there, yet
• working on the view menu--probably land it this week
• working on ratings--almost done
• researching adding MusicBrainz support
• fixed some bugs

Will:

• did a bunch of stuff related to moving servers around
• overhauled the windows build scripts and some of the code so that I can work on Windows
• fixed unit tests so we have proper test skipping
• planning to land extensions

Ben:

• interviewing candidates
• made changes to signals that we talked about on the last couple of calls which caught some funky issues
• fixed a bunch of bugs
• working on performance fixes for tree inserts

Paul:

• fixed a bunch of bugs
• working on Amazon store support

Geoffrey:

• merged the DAAP branch to master
• did some release engineering for putting Miro in the app store
• having problems with bonjour support on Windows

Asheesh:

• working on Miro Community tiers

Order of business:

• Can Will land extensions, yet? In the future, if you need peoples' input, track them down and ping them until they submit to your needs.
• talked about how to get bonjour support working for Miro on Windows
  • problems with bonjour support on Windows
  • could use mDNS responder (Apache license) but we can't get it to compile with Visual Studio Express
  • maybe the user should download the file and print sharing thing and install it?
• 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://manual.getmiro.com/. (It just moved.)

Bugzilla stats for Miro for the last week:

• 46 bugs/feature-requests created
• 1 bugs marked WORKSFORME
• 6 bugs marked INVALID
• 3 bugs marked DUPLICATE
• 1 bugs marked WONTFIX
• 20 bugs marked FIXED
• 1 bugs marked INCOMPLETE