Changing Focus

We had a really good team meeting on Sunday regarding our project.  Here are the highlights:

1) Matthew and James received a good response on the bug that they were able to replicate.  Apparently, the bug was a forgotten and dead issue until they got involved.  By posting their success at replicating the bug, they were able to get the developers involved to help solve the issue.

2) I was finally able to get a bug to replicate, on one which involved menu options.  The only problem was that as soon as I got involved in the patch process, one of the developers fixed the problem before i was able to submit the diff.

3) David made some headway with his Wiimote bug.  He was able to use a Bluetooth usb device to connect the Wiimote and test out the user's problem.  Unfortunately, he was unable to replicate this one.

And that ended up being what caused us to initiate a change of focus in relation to our project.  The nature of xbmc causes the complexity of the bugs to range from extremely hard to replicate, like something involving a specific file format or driver, to relatively easy, like the one I had with menu options.  The ones which fit into our scope, easy enough to be tackled in a few days or weeks, are usually solved by developers before we have a chance to.

So in order for us to contribute meaningfully to the project before the semester is out, we decided to go in and clean up the wiki.  The first paragraph of the first page of the wiki is a desperate plea from the developers for assistance.  They need help getting the pages up to date with respect to the newest Eden release.  In addition, there are many pages out there from earlier releases that still need to be updated.  Some of them still point to the old subversion repository, and now the repository is hosted using GIT.  We will be meeting up again on Thursday to figure out who is going to do what.