[IIAB] Fwd: [UKids] IIAB Software Install

[Tim Moody]

Braddock,

now that we know that George has ogg versions of KA and noticing that you have both webm and h.264 versions, can you suggest how to add ogg and describe the method by which iiab determines which video format to use?

Tim

From: Braddock Gaskill 
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 11:27 PM
To: Curt Thompson ; iiab at sgvhak.org 
Cc: unleashkids at googlegroups.com 
Subject: Re: [IIAB] Fwd: [UKids] IIAB Software Install

Curt, 
It was all good - it forced me kicking and screaming to get a release update out for School Server.

I'll get you a current dataset (which is almost what you sent out) and we can talk about curating it a bit.

-braddock



On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Curt Thompson <curtathompson at gmail.com> wrote:

  That's mostly my fault.  I received the latest 'work-in-progress' from
  Braddock to try to work on and passed on copies to those who asked for
  them without really thinking about how they might be used.

  I am a little torn though, because neither version is perfect at this
  point and the latest now-effectively-released version does have some
  features which make it better (in particular, full-text wikipedia search).

  Ideally there would have been more testing done, but I'm not sure
  sending the older version would have been the better option, given that
  it seems likely we'll be able to address the problems at the three
  schools where it's been deployed.  Admittedly, it would have saved Tim
  (and George?) some headaches as they tried to debug the mismatched
  software/dataset.

  In any case, I didn't mean to cause any trouble or annoyance.  If I did,
  I apologize for that.  I believe Tim has already addressed most of the
  issues with the software/dataset mismatch, missing symlink, etc in
  XSCE.  More clearly definied versioning for IIAB is certainly an
  oft-noted good idea and something I think we should think about going
  forward.

  Cheers,
  Curt



  On 7/13/2014 2:50 AM, James Cameron wrote:
  >> This is not how I envisioned the next release of IIAB to go.  Datasets floating
  >> > around with uncertain pedigree, running software versions which have had no
  >> > thorough testing, no manpower available from our side to support, and two days
  >> > until shipment.  There was a reason I had not released a new version in the
  >> > past nine months.
  > I agree.  First impressions are critical.  Things should just work.


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