(2015-04-08, 21:34)doug Wrote: I'm interested in trying out one of the test builds to get the recent 8 channel DTS decoding. Do these builds get more stable towards the end of the month like with Kodi's development cycle? The family would be using it so I'm looking for a modest amount of stability.
Yes, in theory. First 20 days of month is the "merge window". Last 10 days are bug fixes only, so end of the month should be more stable.
Also kodi has just (this month) moved from alpha to beta, so there shouldn't be any API changes or database jumps until final Isengard release.
However these builds don't just use Kodi. There are experimental features from my newclock4 branch, latest firmware and kernel changes,
whatever OpenELEC is merging, and often other libraries get updated for testing.
So these builds are for testers. Don't be surprised if there are occasional breakages.
If you use the builds, you should be willing to submit a
debug log (wiki) or detailed descriptions of bugs.