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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds excellent! Thanks to you both for all your work on this. :)

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, David Busby <d.busby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Amos,
>
> Thought I would give a quick update.
>
> Having reviewed Matthews configuration and discussion here:
> https://github.com/Oneiroi/scratch/issues/1
>
> I've opted to differ to Matthews .spec file as it is far more up to
> date than the reference spec I was using and hacking, as such soon I
> will be updating the spec on the github repo
> https://github.com/Oneiroi/scratch with a modified version of
> Matthew's to tie into a Jenkins CI server.
>
> I initially explored openshift at redhat for this, but due to some
> security limitations I have had to setup a stand alone Jenkins server,
> per the github issue you can see that builds are at the time of
> writing succeeding, they are presently based on a 5 minute poll of
> github for updates to trigger a build (hooks are being explored but
> are proving a bit of a headache at the moment).
>
> Following the .wav file decision Matthew has also started the ball
> rolling on Fedora application:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856238
>
> Please also note due to the CI integration and bugfixing you may
> notice an increase in requests from: 31.222.185.46 to
> http://download.scratch.mit.edu/scratch-1.4.0.6.src.tar.gz
>
> At any rate the proverbial ball is well and truly rolling, I hope to
> have Matthews spec rolling into the GH repository soon (I've also
> given Matthew collaborator access to this), in the interim Matthew's
> current packages look good as such if Matthew is happy I would suggest
> in the inerim updating website references to those packages for
> Fedora, as soon as I have worked out the "kinks" I will provide
> locations of the CI builds.
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > By the way, the preferred wav format is: uncompressed, mono, 22050
> > samples/sec
> >
> > (That's what Scratch will change anything else you give to, so we might
> as
> > well start with it).
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sure! We need all the help we can get. :)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:06:34PM -0400, Amos Blanton wrote:
> >>> > So I talked over the issue of .ogg support with my colleagues, and it
> >>> > seems
> >>> > I may have spoken a bit prematurely. Having the linux version support
> >>> > different formats could be confusing and problematic for some users.
> So
> >>> > the
> >>> > consensus for now is that the best strategy would be to convert the
> >>> > .mp3
> >>> > sound files included with Scratch to .wav, since that's widely
> >>> > compatible
> >>> > and unencumbered. Does this seem like a good solution? If that's the
> >>> > case,
> >>> > you could simply omit the .mp3 plugin from the binary, and you'd be
> all
> >>> > set.
> >>>
> >>> Yep, that works for me. Is it helpful if I send you a collection of
> >>> converted wav files? I mean, theoretically anyone can do it but I'm
> glad
> >>> to
> >>> help. :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <
> http://mattdm.org/>
> >>
> >>
> >
>