Paul Swartz’s PCF Devblog

In the initial commit of syncing support for Miro, we only support a limited number of devices.  However, we’d love to have more!  If you want to get your device supported, here’s what I need:

• The name of the device
• The name the device sends over USB
• The USB vendor and product IDs
• The path(s) where audio/video files are stored (if there are specific locations)
• What audio MIME types the device supports
• The Miro conversion name for your device OR if we don’t support it there either, the resolution and supported video MIME types.

I got through 11 bugs this week, 10 of which were for Miro.  #10896 (Newly Available badge displayed too frequently) and #10988 (Chicklets don’t update counts for folders) were the hardest because I didn’t know much about the new messaging system.  Working on them was good, though, because now I know a lot more

Today I started working on Guide stuff again.  We’ve got 3 (really 2) P1 bugs that have so far eluded debugging and fixing.  I added some pretty verbose debugging in for #10993 (Feed Updater Running?) so hopefully that will generate something useful.  I also put up some new code for #10972 (Fix the Miro Guide Feeds) which hopefully will limit the number of new items that Miro tries to download.

I’ll be helping Chris out with Guide stuff next week, assuming no new cobranding bugs pop up.  I have one outstanding enhancement for the cobrander (uploading files to OSUOSL) but that’s lower-priority than MG3 stuff.

Some of us have been talking about Git on IRC the past week. I spent today (well mostly my laptop spent the day) importing the Miro SVN respository into a Git repository with git-svn. Just importing all the history took about 4 hours, although I think a lot of that was spent just doing the downloading. The initial checkout was 1.7GB,
with 1.3GB of that taken up by Git bookkeeping. After a repacking,
that number dropped to 865M, with 457MB being bookkeeping. Not too
shabby, considering having a branch, a tag, and trunk all checked out with SVN take up 2.4GB and don’t have all the history immediately available.

I haven’t really used it for development yet, just copied my outstanding changes from my old checkout. We’ll see how that goes
next week.