• The name of the device
• The name the device sends over USB
• The USB vendor and product IDs
• The path(s) where audio/video files are stored (if there are specific locations)
• What audio MIME types the device supports
• The Miro conversion name for your device OR if we don’t support it there either, the resolution and supported video MIME types.

We’re in the process of migrating the sites to 1.0 right now, so if you don’t see any new features right away, don’t fret!  You’ll get them very soon.

• djpagetabs is a templatetag library which implements the nice page number list you see at the top of Miro Guide listings pages.  It works on top of Django’s built-in pagination support.
• djvideo is a templatetag library which embeds videos into Django templates.  It tries to use the best support it can, from the <video> tag for supported browsers/formats to Flowplayer to built-in plugins.
• djpubsubhubbub is an app to subscribe/get updates from PubSubHubBub hubs for Atom/RSS feeds.  I haven’t integrated it with the Guide yet, but it should both reduce the load on the Guide and make updates faster for supported feeds.

They’re all under a BSD license, same as Django, so you can use them wherever you can use Django.

That’s why I need you, loyal readers!  The new branch is online at http://testchannelguide.participatoryculture.org/ and ready for you to poke at it.  It’s a slightly older copy of of the database, so if you’ve recently created an account on MiroGuide.com, your account may not be there.

If you run into problems (problems being anything that doesn’t work like it does on MiroGuide.com), just post a comment here and I’ll get to it as soon as I can!

Translations: With a brand-new site come a bunch of new strings.  At the moment, the most-translated language (Slovenian) still has 116 untranslated strings.  If you’ve got some time, please sign up for Launchpad and translate some strings!

Features: Although I’ve got a bunch of ideas for where I want the Guide to go, I also want to hear from you!  Will turned on voting in Bugzilla, so go vote for your favorite features.  If you don’t see it there, feel free to add it to the list; maybe other people want it, too.

Today I started working on Guide stuff again.  We’ve got 3 (really 2) P1 bugs that have so far eluded debugging and fixing.  I added some pretty verbose debugging in for #10993 (Feed Updater Running?) so hopefully that will generate something useful.  I also put up some new code for #10972 (Fix the Miro Guide Feeds) which hopefully will limit the number of new items that Miro tries to download.

I’ll be helping Chris out with Guide stuff next week, assuming no new cobranding bugs pop up.  I have one outstanding enhancement for the cobrander (uploading files to OSUOSL) but that’s lower-priority than MG3 stuff.

The rest of the week has been spent working on Miro Guide 3.0.  I got through 4 bugs (#11005, #10977, #10997, #10996) and sent two more (#10965 and #10958) to Dean for review.  I spent yesterday and today cleaning up the templates and template-related code to remove stuff we’re not using.  I also fixed about a third of the failing MG test cases, the ones that were simple to fix.  There are more where the functionality has actually changed (ChannelSearchTest in particular) and so the tests need a more thorough updating.

I haven’t really used it for development yet, just copied my outstanding changes from my old checkout. We’ll see how that goes
next week.