I'm hoping if you're reading this that you might be interested in volunteering this coming Saturday to help 12-16 year old girls at the upcoming Dare 2B Digital conference learn about HTML5 and open video. There's more information and background on what's happening on this wiki page.
Two kinds of volunteers needed:
1. Someone who is in the Bay Area and available this coming Saturday from 9-3:30pm to be on-site with us in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum and will work hands-on with the girls to demo Miro Converter, Universal Subtitles, and a little bit of Popcorn.js.
2. Anyone, anywhere, who can do translations to any language and who is available on Saturday anywhere in the 10:15am-3pm PST window to do some 'live' subtitling and show the workshop participants how amazing the universal subtitles project is.
Please get in touch if you are interested/available. Or sign up on the wiki.
Thanks in advance! I will be posting any demos, workshop materials, and an update post-event on how it went.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Test Day X 2
Well today I got to run Full Functional Tests on Firefox 3 beta 1 and then this evening as I procrastinated from dealing with my Hamiltonian circuit assignment, I ran tests on Miro's 1.0rc release.
The two testing systems are very different even though they both use Litmus-based testing. Miro's tests are fewer, some are not well written and in some ways I find them to be very superficial. The Firefox tests have been around a lot longer so I'm sure that has allowed for quite a bit of fine tuning.
I'm not giving up on Miro but so far it's been challenging to get involved with that project to the degree with which I have been able to immerse myself in Mozilla projects. The lab the other day threw me into Thunderbird in a quick 'n dirty way and that was great - the documentation is all there. With Miro - well...when I went to look for docs on how to build with Windows...this and this. The gist of it is: "We can't really tell you how to build on windows because it's hard".
Well, now that I'm working on the Mac Book and I have VMWare Fusion with an Ubuntu vm, perhaps I can try building it in a Unix/Linux environment? There's a doc for Mac OS X and for Linux. We'll soon see.
Now, back to Mozilla stuff. My 0.2. release is due soon, I have already done a non-debug build of FF with the --enable-debugger-info-modules in the mozconfig and I've made the buildsymbols for it. Now I just have to index the pdb files and get the symbols and the source up on my server. Immediately after that is done (in the next day or two) I will look into a) how to make an installer and b) how to work with the CVStoHTTP script that comes with the srctools.
When I have an installer up, I'll be putting out the contrib call for anyone who can to grab the installer and try to hook it up with my symbol and source servers.
Stay tuned.
The two testing systems are very different even though they both use Litmus-based testing. Miro's tests are fewer, some are not well written and in some ways I find them to be very superficial. The Firefox tests have been around a lot longer so I'm sure that has allowed for quite a bit of fine tuning.
I'm not giving up on Miro but so far it's been challenging to get involved with that project to the degree with which I have been able to immerse myself in Mozilla projects. The lab the other day threw me into Thunderbird in a quick 'n dirty way and that was great - the documentation is all there. With Miro - well...when I went to look for docs on how to build with Windows...this and this. The gist of it is: "We can't really tell you how to build on windows because it's hard".
Well, now that I'm working on the Mac Book and I have VMWare Fusion with an Ubuntu vm, perhaps I can try building it in a Unix/Linux environment? There's a doc for Mac OS X and for Linux. We'll soon see.
Now, back to Mozilla stuff. My 0.2. release is due soon, I have already done a non-debug build of FF with the --enable-debugger-info-modules in the mozconfig and I've made the buildsymbols for it. Now I just have to index the pdb files and get the symbols and the source up on my server. Immediately after that is done (in the next day or two) I will look into a) how to make an installer and b) how to work with the CVStoHTTP script that comes with the srctools.
When I have an installer up, I'll be putting out the contrib call for anyone who can to grab the installer and try to hook it up with my symbol and source servers.
Stay tuned.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Something to show...
For my 5 hours between classes on Friday. Hopped into Litmus and joined in on Test Day. Managed to do 58 tests and filed my first bugs: 402219, 402228, and 402238.
I feel very accomplished. It's fun to find a bug, and I had an especially great crash that I was able to reproduce 3 times, and after Vlad's talk yesterday I am also looking forward to working on a patch and fixing a bug.
The past few days I have also been testing the waters over at Miro. What a difference size makes. Miro has only 11 staff - how many does Mozilla have? I would guess at least 20 or 30 times more. So far I haven't done a build of Miro yet, I'm going to work on that over the weekend. Can't wait to look at the source code and see what makes a video player. The funny (and somewhat frustrating) thing is that I have had to create new bugzilla and litmus accounts for Miro as my Mozilla ones don't carry forward. Someone hurry up and get that OpenID stuff working on everything!
I feel very accomplished. It's fun to find a bug, and I had an especially great crash that I was able to reproduce 3 times, and after Vlad's talk yesterday I am also looking forward to working on a patch and fixing a bug.
The past few days I have also been testing the waters over at Miro. What a difference size makes. Miro has only 11 staff - how many does Mozilla have? I would guess at least 20 or 30 times more. So far I haven't done a build of Miro yet, I'm going to work on that over the weekend. Can't wait to look at the source code and see what makes a video player. The funny (and somewhat frustrating) thing is that I have had to create new bugzilla and litmus accounts for Miro as my Mozilla ones don't carry forward. Someone hurry up and get that OpenID stuff working on everything!
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