Milestone 27: CoSolvent Comunity Server

The development team here at iPOV is pleased to announce the release of CoSolvent Community Server, Milestone 27. This release continues to improve stability and expand the feature set. The main changes in this release are:

• Improvements to Commenting, including the addition of “Sort by Video Timing” to sort the comments based on the time on a video that the comment is associated with (applies only to video files).
• Visual formatting tweaks, including decreasing unneeded space between item previews in the “Grid” folder view mode, this greatly improves the layout for users with a 1024 x 768 screen.
• Addition of item flags for “Has comments”, “New Item”, “Changed Item” to help visually scan a folder contents.
• Further improvements to the upload control:
  • Addition of a “Keep Alive” using a Javascript timeout to keep the user’s session alive when on the upload page.  We’ve had issues with users going to the upload page, getting distracted and moving to some other application / task, then returning to the still loaded upload page and attempting to upload files, only to get an error when the (often large) file finishes uploading and the server fails to process it due to the user’s browser session being timed out due to inactivity.  This change will fix this.  The “keep alive” is also triggered immediately before running an upload which should cause most other errors to be detected before a user actually has to wait for a file upload.
  • Errors are now hidden by default, clicking on the “Errors” link in the upload status bar loads the list of upload errors; each error in this list is now cross linked to an online help page (http://www.ipov.net/apps/ccs-support/articles/cosolvent-upload-errors/) which explains the error in more details (and which can be updated faster than the application text).
  • Grid used to display files that are queued for upload has some visual improvements to make it more usable.
• Continued to work on updating the PHP code to run properly on PHP 5.3

The complete list of issues addresses can be seen at https://www.assembla.com/spaces/cosolvent/milestones/240821-milestone-27

Additionally, this release should mark the last development done in our SVN repository; we are transitioning to use of git to take advantage of its cheap branches and other distributed features.