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Progress from last week
robbt started a wiki page with tips for testing Dmedia - thanks, robbt!
JamesMR landed the first piece of the stunning Dmedia UI, built with sweet, sweet WebKit and HTML5 - checkout this video of it in action! Thanks, James!
jderose has been working on getting CouchDB 1.1.1 into Precise by starting with couchdb 1.1.1-1 from Debian testing and splitting it into couchdb and couchdb-bin packages as found in Ubuntu. Jason filed an Ubuntu bug about this, and also contacted the Debian maintainer as hopefully Debian will accept this split so it doesn't have to be an Ubuntu-specific change. Packages are available for testing in ppa:novacut/daily
Barry Warsaw's python-dbus Python3 port still needs a bit of work, so we couldn't start on Dmedia bug 898325 yet, which might get pushed back to the 12.01 release
jderose documented our newly revised monthly release process. Each month's release is proceeded by a week-long QA window... if you can spare just an hour or two once a month, you can play a big part in making sure we deliver high quality software in the Stable Releases PPA!
jderose will be attending the GStreamer 1.0 applications and bindings hackfest at the end of January, on a mission to help apps currently using GStreamer 0.10 and the static python-gst bindings port to PyGI and GStreamer 1.0 (and Python3, hehe)
Plans for this week
- This release is all about Dmedia, so we're all going to be working on getting a reasonably useful way to browse your files in Dmedia, and get a few more critical UI pieces in place
- Jason is cranking out some foundations needed for the Browser tab
- James is currently doing UI design for the History tab
- David (dmj726) is on Winter break now, and I think will be wowing us in the next month with the audio sync stuff he's been working on (think Pluraleyes, but hopped up on Dmedia)
We need a little PyGI/dconf trick so the importer can be "greedy" without have default apps pop up and harsh the user's mellow
The 11.12 pre-stable release happens this Thursday!
Get involved
- Want to be part of the Novacut QA Squad? Help us test-run the process this week! We're looking for someone to lead this: it will require a small, but consistent time commitment each month.
We'd love help testing the CouchDB 1.1.1 package jderose proposed for Ubuntu... builds are available in ppa:novacut/daily
Have USB3 hardware? Please help test with your hardware so we can have solid USB3 support is Precise!