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<blockquote data-quote="megahorst" data-source="post: 972382" data-attributes="member: 22213"><p>During the last days I had some thoughts about Area 51 testing.</p><p> </p><p>When I have a look to the Area 51 section it seems to me that there are not so many users testing the teams new features and enhancements. I can imagine that this can be frustrating for the developers from time to time and more testing could bring more stability and ideas to all the new things.</p><p>If the MePo team shares my opinion my thoughts might help to solve the problem. If the team thinks, that it is OK as it is there is of course no need to change anything.</p><p> </p><p>From my point of view there are 2 points that led to the small amount of testers:</p><p> </p><p>The language barrier</p><p>Not all of the users are able to speak English. I can imagine that there are a lot of users outside that are willing to help but are not able to give there feedback in English.</p><p>Have you thought about Area 51 sections in the language specific forums?</p><p>Some willing users could support the team with the maintaining of these sections.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">translating the english area 51 threads with new features to their native language</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">first level support of the testers (solving of installation problems, ...)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">collect the feedback, translate it to English and bring it to the English Area 51 section</li> </ul><p></p><p>"Too complex" installation of the patches</p><p>I can imagine that, there are users outside which are a little afraid for changing files within their MePo installation and only a very few users are having separate developing PCs for testing things.</p><p>For all these users it might be to complex to participate Area 51 testing today.</p><p> </p><p>To solve this MePo could be extended with the ability to fetch the patchfiles out of other directories than the original files.</p><p>What I mean:</p><p>Today we have</p><p>[code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\mediaportal\<a lot of files and directories>[/code]</p><p>and </p><p>[code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\TV Server\<a lot of files and directories>[/code]</p><p>What about having </p><p>[code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\mediaportal\Area51<id>\<a lot of files and directories>[/code]</p><p>and</p><p>[code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\TV Server\Area51<id>\<a lot of files and directories>[/code]</p><p>too?</p><p> </p><p>The Area51<id> directory and subdirectories are the places to store the patched files.</p><p>The <id> extension could be used to have more than one Area51 project installed.</p><p> </p><p>The testing could be started with new commandlineparameters for mediaportal.exe and tvserver.exe</p><p>For example:</p><p>[code]mediaportal.exe /area51-001[/code]</p><p>could take take files of the </p><p>[code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\mediaportal\Area51-001\[/code]</p><p>directories.</p><p>Files that are not within the area51 subdirectories could be taken from the original directories.</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The </span>developers<span style="font-size: 12px"> could prepare archives where the files are already stored within their right places and the testers only have to expand the archive and start mediaportal or the tv-server with the command line extension.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">This would lead the original installation untouched and after testing the users (or their wifes / girlfriends) could start MePo without being influenced by the patched files.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megahorst, post: 972382, member: 22213"] During the last days I had some thoughts about Area 51 testing. When I have a look to the Area 51 section it seems to me that there are not so many users testing the teams new features and enhancements. I can imagine that this can be frustrating for the developers from time to time and more testing could bring more stability and ideas to all the new things. If the MePo team shares my opinion my thoughts might help to solve the problem. If the team thinks, that it is OK as it is there is of course no need to change anything. From my point of view there are 2 points that led to the small amount of testers: The language barrier Not all of the users are able to speak English. I can imagine that there are a lot of users outside that are willing to help but are not able to give there feedback in English. Have you thought about Area 51 sections in the language specific forums? Some willing users could support the team with the maintaining of these sections. [LIST] [*]translating the english area 51 threads with new features to their native language [*]first level support of the testers (solving of installation problems, ...) [*]collect the feedback, translate it to English and bring it to the English Area 51 section [/LIST] "Too complex" installation of the patches I can imagine that, there are users outside which are a little afraid for changing files within their MePo installation and only a very few users are having separate developing PCs for testing things. For all these users it might be to complex to participate Area 51 testing today. To solve this MePo could be extended with the ability to fetch the patchfiles out of other directories than the original files. What I mean: Today we have [code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\mediaportal\<a lot of files and directories>[/code] and [code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\TV Server\<a lot of files and directories>[/code] What about having [code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\mediaportal\Area51<id>\<a lot of files and directories>[/code] and [code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\TV Server\Area51<id>\<a lot of files and directories>[/code] too? The Area51<id> directory and subdirectories are the places to store the patched files. The <id> extension could be used to have more than one Area51 project installed. The testing could be started with new commandlineparameters for mediaportal.exe and tvserver.exe For example: [code]mediaportal.exe /area51-001[/code] could take take files of the [code]...\program files\Team Mediaportal\mediaportal\Area51-001\[/code] directories. Files that are not within the area51 subdirectories could be taken from the original directories. [SIZE=3]The [/SIZE]developers[SIZE=3] could prepare archives where the files are already stored within their right places and the testers only have to expand the archive and start mediaportal or the tv-server with the command line extension.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]This would lead the original installation untouched and after testing the users (or their wifes / girlfriends) could start MePo without being influenced by the patched files.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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