Weeks end: Summary for October 1, 2007
Note for anyone who has noticed the date above: it seems slightly more practical to me that the testing week concludes on a Monday rather than begins. So in that spirit, I will use this space to summarize the changes that have been implemented between Mondays (even though I am well aware that today is Tuesday).
The most significant addition is the implementation of thumbnail generation and length extraction. For Windows this was tried before but resulted in crashes and unstable behavior and had to be pulled from prior releases.
The developers have changed their approach and now use a separate process. The change is also being implemented for linux and os x. If you are interested in the technical information, you can read about it in the MovieDataProcess wiki.
If you want to help test out this feature, there are some test cases in the new Weekly Testing wiki page.
Weekly Releases
The new Weekly Testing wiki page is meant to complement this blog. It contains more details about the latest changes to the release, suggested test cases and known issues. I encourage anyone who wants to help to take the recommended build from the nightlies page and work through the tests.
Additionally - you can edit the page with additional tests you have run or believe should be run. Once things have been wrung out - I will use the information there to update the official test cases for Miro.
Your involvement at this stage of the process will really help prevent defects and provide necessary input to the development team.