As a result I haven’t been able been able to work as much on the volunteer based projects I’ve involved in such as BlenderArt, the Blender Challenges (www.blenderchallenge.com), the Entertainer Media Center etc. I’m hoping that once I’ve settled into a routine at Warwick I’ll be able to fit those back into my schedule.

My first day at Warwick was yesterday and it went well. I sorted out Computer Logins, got my Eee on the network, joined the gym and the climbing club (the indoor climbing area is impressive!), worked out where the important buildings are and continued the work I’ve been doing on a CAF + LAG player.

I still have some things todo, such as getting an annual pass for the car park, which I have to do today. I’ve got some more music recorded as well which I’ll be uploading to this blog and last.fm sometime soon.

It went well and there were plenty of questions about the project afterwards. The presentation was created in OpenOffice and you can download the file here [3069kb].

Revision is going well at the moment and I think I’ll get my target results. The one thing I’m worried about is how my hand is going to respond to six hours of almost non-stop hand writing.

As I use email and messenging as my main form of non-verbal communication I don’t physically write that much normally, so my revision has been as much about getting my hand writing legible as it has about studying the course!

In other news Entertainer 0.2 is very much on the horizon, hopefully we’ll see it released before the end of the next sprint over this coming weekend.

I’ll be going now to type my notes out…

We are in the top 10 “most prominent FLOSS projects” for media center which is a really good result for such a young project.

The translation work will be done through launchpad’s translation web interface once rockstar gets it set up at http://translations.launchpad.net/entertainer

Unfortunately I won’t be able to help much with the actual translation work because I don’t actually speak anything but English and a little Spanish and Swahili.

Hakuna Matata and Adios!

Entertainer reached the 0.1 milestone yesterday. Download page here.

The Entertainer Project (www.entertainer-project.com) is going to be releasing version 0.1 in two weeks time on the 14th June.

To test it prior to release (you’ll need bzr) get a console up and type in the following:

bzr branch lp:entertainer

Development website is over on launchpad (https://launchpad.net/entertainer/)

One very helpful use it can be put to is that of working out how much of a project’s source code has been covered by unit tests and I decided to try this for the Entertainer Media Center project.

What follows is how I installed and used python-coverage to work out how much of the Entertainer Source code is actually tested when all our unittests are run. I relied upon this webpage and the command line help available from python-coverage.

First of all I installed the python module from the Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install python-coverage

This installed version 2.6

I then changed directory to where all the unittests for Entertainer are stored on my computer:

cd src/tests

After testing it in a couple of ways, I then cleared any previous history with this command:

python /usr/share/python-support/python-coverage/coverage.py -e

The actual production of the statistics is done in two stages. First you run the program which will generate the stats (In this case all the unittests):

python /usr/share/python-support/python-coverage/coverage.py -x run_tests.py

This stores a history of what lines were executed. You can then compare this history to the actual source files with:

python /usr/share/python-support/python-coverage/coverage.py -r ../*.py ../*/*.py ../*/*/*.py ../*/*/*/*.py ../*/*/*/*/*.py

This gives statistics for each individual source code file and then a set of overall statistics for the whole project. I had to use the ../*’s to make sure all the source code was used.

The overall stats that were generated for the Entertainer Project is as follows:

...
../utils/log_viewer 114 0 0%
../utils/lyrics_downloader 80 19 23%
../utils/open_feed_source_dialog 77 0 0%
../utils/preferences_dialog 200 0 0%
../utils/resolve_dialog 64 0 0%
../utils/system_tray_icon 95 0 0%
../utils/theme 88 0 0%
../utils/thumbnailer 31 27 87%
../utils/video_thumbnailer 226 126 55%
../utils/weather 106 100 94%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL 13195 2206 16%

This means that out of a total of 13,195 lines of python code only 16%, 2,206 lines, is being tested by the 145 unittests that have been written so far.

Obviously increasing the coverage of the unittests will make the Entertainer much better at pinpointing bugs and fixing breaks in code as the project is developed.

• Lots of progress on the new ORM
• Weather and WeatherForecasts have been written and interface with the Yahoo Weather website. Locations for weather forecasts can be edited in the configuration manager and the weather button on the main menu can be hidden. We still have the Weather Screen to create.
• Eject CD button has been added, however it is disabled by default in content.conf
• Code Line Counter tool has been added
• More work has been done on resolution independance of widgets
• New tab widgets
• Video Clips menu now works
• Documentation has been updated and expanded
• Lots of work on the googlecode issues

Overall, it has been a great sprint with a lot of progress being made by all the developers.

Hopefully we will be able to get the Weather Screen completed soon to finish off the development of that area for the 0.1 milestone.