PCF Testing

The developers have fixed a TON of BUGs for a 2.5.3 release and it is time to get some serious testing done on the posted release candidate build.

Changes include some fixes to some unknown errors, updates to vlc and libtorrent, changes for some os x 10.6 specific issues, and some other file naming problems on windows.

Thanks to a contribution for Jason, we have also added the ability to play any item in an external player via the right-click context menu. This is the initial implementation of a long-requested feature.

Because there are so many changes that affect all part of Miro, we really need to get to broad testing on this.  Please download the nightly build for your os: windows, os x, source.

There is a 2.5.3 rc test run in litmus.  The focus areas test group consists of tests for the areas that have been changed the most.  Please give us some of your time and run few test cases.

Few updates about what’s come and gone in miro testing lately.

Souce and Nightly Build testing:
Source repositories: a few week ago we migrated from using subversion to git.  If you’d like to keep track of the code checkins, you can view the changes here: https://git.participatoryculture.org/miro/log/?showmsg=1 .  It’s useful to see  the regular changes if you are actively using nightly builds.

In Litmus there a new group under the nightly build test run, for weekly recommended tests.  In that group there will be a selection of test cases relevant to the recent code changes of the past week.  I’d really like to focus on improving the time gap between when a bug was injected, to the time it was detected.  I think focused testing will help that.

Miro 2.5.3: we’d like to push out a 2.5.3 release soon.  In 2.5 there are issues where users will get an unknown error on startup.  There have been some changes to how we handle and log errors that occur during database transactions.  Another different error that looks the same on Windows has also been corrected for the 2.5.3 release.

Additionally, vlc (for windows playback) has been updated to 1.0.1, libtorrent has been updated to 0.14.5. Perian Quicktime components (for os x playback) have also been updated.

Miro 2.6: Work is underway for the next major release.  The most notable enhancement is subtitle support  Luc is working on adding subtitle support to allow for more translations as well as assist the hearing impaired.  To help finance it, we’ve posted the project on Kickstart.

We have also had some code contributions.  There is now a context menu for items: Play Externally.  This implements part of bug #9350, which is a long-requested feature.  We have Jason Woofendon to thank for that patch.