Release 0.4 – The Final Countdown

This is it, the final countdown. It’s been quite the adventure so far but alas it is coming to an end, at least academically…

After handing in release 0.3 I was curious to know what Dave had in store for us for the final project. I wanted to start looking for an issue to do since these things can take time. I decided to ask about it on the slack channel and got a response I was not expecting.

About an hour later he responded again declaring that he had released the instructions. I was surprised to see some of the wording in it reflected the input I had given Dave. It’s like my voice was actually heard and it felt nice. I just had to tell Dave how much I appreciated the work he’s doing.

The Issue

Now that I know the scope of the assignment I need to figure out what I want to do. I already had a pretty good idea. There was an issue I seen in the FreeTube repository I have been working with. I first saw the issue back in October when I was looking for things to do for Hacktoberfest.

I decided against doing it because of the above conversation in the issue. Apparently it’s not going to be a simple fix. I though about doing it for release 0.3 but I tried out a couple solutions and non of them immedianlty worked so again, I decided to pass on it.

It’s like this issue was meant for me. This will be the perfect issue to take on for the final release. It’s a complicated issue that will have a visible impact on how the application works. It will also push FreeTube one step closer to release 0.10, which I have already helped with!

I have already looked into possible solutions and found this plugin for videojs that apparently has found a way around the auto focus issue when changing to full screen.

As you can see from the two above images there is a slight problem in that the lone member with the ability to merge PR’s has been MIA the last week+. Thankfully one of the main contributors saw no reason a PR using that plugin would be rejected, but it will affect a lot so the review could be lengthy. After getting the blessing from Dave it’s time to start the countdown.