Check this out: a CSV file containing the latest FFmpeg build/test results as aggregated by FATE. The file reflects the latest results as soon as they are entered into the database — none of that “waiting up to 15 minutes for a cache refresh” business.

I have finally implemented the first 3 of the 4 steps outlined in this post describing how to make FATE prettier and more useful. I look forward to redesigning the front page to really improve matters. Unfortunately, when I deployed this new caching mechanism on the live system last night, a new problem manifested on some of my machines where the results were not being transported to the server speedily– the receiving script would time out or just take a really, really long time to respond (think on the order of 5-15 minutes when it normally takes no longer than 2 seconds at the extreme). So I’m guessing I will need to investigate that soon, perhaps before the front page redesign, though it may have just been a transient problem on the server side.

The raw.php file linked above isn’t supposed to be particularly useful for the purpose of human consumption. However, if anyone wants to use it for creating other services, that might be interesting.