OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi Part 2
(2013-12-06, 13:11)popcornmix Wrote:
(2013-12-06, 11:52)stuCONNERS Wrote: are these gotham builds stable enough for daily use or is it still better to stay with frodo for the time being?

Don't use Gotham if Frodo does all you want and things must always be stable.
Don't use Gotham if you predominantly use add-ons.

Use Gotham if you want to help with testing.
Use Gotham if there is a specific bug on Frodo that is resolved on Gotham.
Use Gotham if you want better performance and new features and don't mind occasionally reporting bugs, and reverting to an older build.

The basics tend to always remain stable, e.g. playing locally attached or streaming from local network.
Add-ons do break when APIs in Gotham change, until the add-on maintainers catch up.
PVR backends do break when APIs in Gotham change, until the PVR backend maintainers catch up.
Gotham is a development tree. Minor bugs frequently appear and then disappear a few days later.
The first ten days of each month are when new features are added.
The remaining days are only bug fixes, so generally updating at end of a month is more stable than updating in first ten days of the month.

Currently the GUI sounds are a bit experimental and it may be worth waiting a few days before switching.
Nice summary.

I thought Gotham was now in feature freeze so this month will just be bug fixes? Does that mean that GUI sounds for RPi won't be accepted for Gotham?

Are the changes in the newclock3 branch planned to be merged for the Gotham release or at a later date?
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Messages In This Thread
AW: RE: - by DieterLumpen - 2013-07-29, 20:50
include guires switch? - by hpbaxxter - 2013-08-01, 21:46
RE: dual audio?? - by pootler - 2013-08-03, 17:13
Help, watch 3D Film on Non 3D TV - by unix72 - 2013-08-09, 12:39
Remote Controllers - by tfft - 2013-08-14, 09:11
rbej repeatable crash - by RichG - 2013-08-19, 12:43
New Tester - by theneverstill - 2013-10-03, 17:16
RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi Part 2 - by Leopold - 2013-12-06, 14:25
[split] missing subtitle stream - by Jönke - 2014-01-08, 21:03
3D Support - by michbeck100 - 2014-01-11, 01:01
No sound on Gotham builds - by URBANsUNITED - 2014-01-13, 15:19
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