status: week ending 11/13/2007
Posted by Will Kahn-Greene
I did a bunch of release-management stuff, some minor bug triage work and some minor Gutsy work.
I passed a bunch of email back and forth with BDK and James regarding problems between Miro and the sun-java*-plugin packages on Gutsy and Feisty (bug 8444 and now bug 9064). BDK looked into it further but in the end either the test we’re using to determine whether the problem exists or not is bogus or we didn’t fix the issue. Regardless, after much discussion it was decided that the package conflicts were worse than the problem so we removed the conflicts for 1.0 final.
I got in touch with Dean’s friend Ben (not to be confused with BDK or my brother Ben), and he and I are going to go through our Gutsy and Feisty packaging and fix any outstanding issues (like bug 8716). I think this is pretty cool and hope that this is the first of many Boston-area Miro hack-fests.
I also worked on Mediabar. I’ve been doing a pass at cleaning up namespace issues and code cleanup. After I’m done with that, I’ll work on the tab rearchitecture and the rss discovery problems. Neil and I traded some email and he’s eager to work on things again. I’m currently the bottleneck on further Mediabar progress–I’ll be spending the rest of the week fixing that. I want to get back to working on the Firefox patch, too and get that done ASAP.
On a side note, I was selected for the Nokia n810 device program. I want to look into porting Miro over to the device and do some other development, too. It’ll be a good system for figuring out how Miro could work on “smaller devices” and what a slimmed down version of Miro can do. I also want to look into what it would take to get Miro working with Conduit so that Linux users can move video content to their n810 and other portable video playing devices.
As a side note, I live in Somerville, MA. If anyone (users, testers, developers, …) is interested in getting together to triage bugs, working out issues, fix problems, add features, … let me know. I’m totally game for hack-fests and getting together.
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November 28th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I know, I’m a little late to comment, but though: Miro on a mobile on the current infrastructure? Can that work?
It takes about 15 secs to start Miro even on my 1.7 GHz notebook, how long will start-up time be on 330 Mhz processor?
November 28th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Aaron: I’m pretty sure Miro 1.0 won’t work on the Nokia n810 or any other mobile/embedded device–that’s not what I’m looking at. I want to start researching what Miro would look like on an mobile/embedded device and use that to help shape future development of Miro. I imagine this has some profound impact on things: Miro as a set-top box, Miro on mobile/UMPC/embedded devices, even Miro on older computers….
Additionally, I want to look into Miro on the desktop interfacing with embedded/mobile devices better. Adding a conduit between Miro and the n810 would allow you to download video podcasts on the desktop and sync with the n810 to watch on the commuter rail. Or something like that. The needs are clearly there, but the solutions have to be worked out.
At this stage, I’m just doing exploratory experimentation to see what the situation is. Any ideas/plans beyond that will likely depend on what I learn.
If there are other people interested, I’d be interested in putting together a “task force” to work together on things.