Comments on: 1.1 Release Candidate Testing

By: mirotesting

mirotesting — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:59:47 +0000

I agree that we can use better coverage testing the various linux platforms.

It would be great if there were more linux volunteers who are willing to build from source and test out the application as we make changes.

A source nightly build is posted along with the windows and os x builds every day.

By: frenchrh

frenchrh — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:15:04 +0000

Here is the link to the Suse Build Service, which can build Miro packages for many different Linux Distributions.

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service

By: frenchrh

frenchrh — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:05:47 +0000

Opensuse supplies a build service which works for multiple linux distributions.
Miro/Democracy Player has had quite a set of linux problems in the 1.0 release. You need to improve your release quality here.
Also the Miro forum seems to have no Miro participants on it so that problems highlighted on the forum don’t even seem to enter your release process.

By: janet

janet — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:15:41 +0000

When doing the release testing - using the sticky section is the best. The nightly builds in the other section should always be regarded as questionable. So always back up your database before testing with them. If you do find a problem - please report it.

We have released 1.1 - so our next focus will be the regular nightly build testing.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:43:18 +0000

When I download the source (1.1) under the sticky files section on the nightlies page, it works fine, but when I try to download the source from the build files section below that I just get an empty archive. Should I just be using the one under the stickes section?

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By: mirotesting

mirotesting — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:05:58 +0000

Hi Tommy -

You should use the source for the release candidate build that is posted on the nightlies page: http://participatoryculture.org/nightlies.

From there you can use ./run.sh as you mentioned above.

There are some test cases that we are hoping people will run on litmus.pculture.org.

Thanks for being involved!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:13:26 +0000

I would love to help out, but I’m not completely sure what to do. Should I download the source code in the original post or follow the instructions for getting the source from the link in your last post? If I download the source in the initial post, do I still do “cd tv/platform/gtk-x11
./run.sh” to run it?

I’ve never tested anything before (I know you said that doesn’t matter) and I would just like to know what I’m doing before I try to do it.

By: mirotesting

mirotesting — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:21:01 +0000

Rich - we do have a good instruction set for building under linux - you can find it here: https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki/GTKX11BuildDocs

I also want to point out that building takes longer now that we are using libtorrent.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:11:00 +0000

Testing under linux would be a lot easier if you could provide precompiled builds for the major distributions.

Aren’t there any autobuild services out there?