Rusty Nail

• hotfix: temporarily deactivate writing and uploading a processing info file
• add google_webmaster_tools_verification
• replace images for landing page
• add intructions on how to make a screenshot of a failed upload (doc)

Negroni

Changes

• LP add get in touch (email) button
• LP pimp the how to section
• rewrite task check_validity to be more generic
• fix raising InvalidModelException
• move rake task fix_blank_descriptions into namespace fix

Manhattan

Changes

• hotfix: fix angular's injection which got corrupted by minification on LIVE
• merge sencha and livepage angular app
• simplify angular configuration
• change order of archived talks on users#show back to standard order (starts_at DESC)
• treat talks in state 'halflive' as 'live' in most cases
• add validation of length for users' summary
• fix talks controller to generate venues on the fly when updating talks
• add fix task to fix users and users' summary

Gin Fizz

Changes

• draft version of new landing page
• fix display of listen later talks & venues on profile

Long Island Iced Tea

Changes

• introduce user summary by @scuocere
• correct upload icon by @scuocere
• several bugfixes to uploader by @munen
  • allow only one file to be selected. show real file name
  • allow audio/mpeg filetype
  • allow alternative mime types for allowed file types
  • reintroducing aws-sdk gem (quickfix)
• several bugfixes by @branch14
  • be more defensive when writing processing_info
  • fixed typos
  • fixed spec suit
  • introduce explicit state on uploader, uploader now shows that it is finished
  • add a hint for date/time in past on upload
  • omit the uploader enirely if file has already been uploaded

White Russian

Warning

This release is not stable! Postprocessing with Cutting is somewhat shaky. Please do not release on live!

Changes

• add technical requirements for audio editor
• add audio strategy for cutting audio
• some quick fixes for upload audio
• some fixes for new talk create (validations, callbacks & defaults)
• bugfix empty listerner space
• new design for forms: profile, series, talk
• new design for: profile, series, live talk partial
• fix paths for apple touch icons, improve icons
• introduce 'mini mic check' for mic requesters
• rack rtmp quality up to 10
• as3: catch all uncaught exceptions
• fix debug settings on talks#show
• reduce dj attempts to 1, to no lose error messages

Old Fashioned

On deploy

Run

rake fix:default_venues

Add to the settings.local.yml files these configurations for "talk_upload_bucket":

live: vr-audio-uploads-live
staging: vr-audio-uploads-staging

Todo

• Write to Luca Selinger whether his band wants to upload their songs on VR instead of Soundcloud.
• Discuss whether we want to write to several bands/DJs that we know about the same issue.

Changes

• add rake task fix:user_tokens
• rephrase flash requirement
• improve slack integration
• generate flyers delayed
• write a processing info file and upload to s3
• js log messages stored in session
• expose bandwidth on talks#show
• implement redirect overlay
• User audio upload (unstyled, Martin is working on that)
• rewrite talks create (unstyled, Martin is working on that)

Mojito

Common Changes

• Include GA Event Tracking, Events tracked:
  • player: seek, play, pause, getflash
  • share: facebook, twitter, mail
  • talk: flyer, download, embed
• Importer for Blog Talk Radio User
• regenerate flyer (delayed) when user name changes
• generate flyer (delayed) from backoffice app
• introduce feature: cancel micrequest

Design Changes

• push edit in sidebar
• link user names
• Related talk was masking the "edit talk" button. Not anymore.
• Talk#live: decline link underlined and with hand mouse cursor
• modal anonymous user redirect
• i18n pluralize 'speakers'
• better flash help
• design for start button

Technical Changes

• improve specs for flyer (munen)
• improve doc/README (tpo)
• tmux start script (tpo)

Cuba Libre

On deploy run

bundle exec rake fix:reminder
cd ~/.rbenv && git pull && cd plugins/ruby-build/ && git pull && cd && rbenv install 2.1.2 && rbenv local 2.1.2 && gem install bundler

TODOS

• After deploy contact Georg Gradwohl [email protected] with the API access key to https://voicerepublic.com/users/oh-wu

User visible features

• Linked Avatars:
  • the team on the landing page
  • search results
    • best hit (when user)
    • users section
  • venues#show
    • host
    • comments
  • talks#show (in state live)
    • host on stage
    • participants
    • chat input
    • chat messages
• bugfix: "recommended talks" box when postprocessing does not blow the page up anymore. instead it only shows up on archived talks.
• safefty net for streaming users on live (and halflive) page
  • streaming users will have to answer a question before being able to leave the talk or even close the tab/window
• For vienna and other users: talks index api
• Bugfix: Reminders will be deleted on Talk or Series delete
• show count in comments tab
• set timezone on registration
• Regenerate flyer on User#update and Talk#update

Technical features

• restructure controllers
• rename api to xhr
• disableable api
• dependent destroy reminder
• Bugfix/77103162/chat avatar

Backoffice

• direct download links in Talk#show for mp3 and ogg files
• users 'about' is editable
• display 'postprocess' & 'reprocess' only when override is not set

Immediate improvements

User visible features

• Brand new Talk design
• Better Terms of Service (when signing up)
• "are you a conference?" question when signing up
• Remove formats from talks
• Authorization for reminders

Debugging improvements

• session persisted javascript console
• track disk usage via munin