Re: [Banshee-devel-list] banshee-official-plugins and 0.11.x

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben Lambda1 be>]

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 22:03 -0400, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> Hola Banshee Developers!
> 
> I need to write up a more broken-down and revised Roadmap
> (http://banshee-project.org/Roadmap) for this wonderful new cycle that
> is 0.11.x (will stabilize to 0.12.x), but I'd like to see the first
> unstable (0.11.0) release by the nearly arbitrary date of August 9th.
> That's one month from today.
> 
> So I'm writing to get some feedback:
> 
> a) What are some major areas that need work in core (I can name a few
> important areas, but I'd like to get uninfluenced feedback first)

My three points of pain:

*) Performance
We're pretty feature-complete, but there's loads that could be done in
speed / memory usage. Let's make banshee as snappy as Winamp2 used to
be :-). I'm very interested in the new view/model.

*) Metadata
Do the metadata editing in two directions. In other words: commit
changes to file. But never, ever screw up user files. Showing metadata
for streams and podcasts (to a lesser extent) doesn't really make sense
currently most of the time (in the TrackInfoHeader).

*) VBR
VBR reading is really really bad. Probably a gstreamer issue, but it's
bad.

>From a programmers view, I'd like more documented code. Is there a way
to merge back the additions in monodoc from monodoc into the source
code? Documentation should really be next to the source code (as,
certainly with the current amount of documentation done, the source code
is the first place one looks anyway).

> b) As I've stated before, I'd like to release banshee-official-plugins
> in parallel with core releases in the 0.11.x series. This means all the
> plugins in banshee-official-plugins need to be "ready" by the 9th. That
> being said, I'd like specific feedback from each plugin maintainer on
> what needs to be done in your plugin (what works, what doesn't, what can
> be fixed by then, etc. -- a nice status update):
> 
>   - Podcasting (Mike Urbanski)
>   - Recommendations (Fredrik Hedberg)
>   - Smart Playlists (Gabriel Burt)
>   - iRadio, MiniMode (Me-ish, anyone want to take over maintainership of
> one/both of these?)
> 
> >From what I can tell, mostly everything in this module is good to go.
> There are some quirks in some plugins, and there's a big known crasher
> in the iRadio plugin (I am suspecting it's NodeStore related). I'd like
> to stop adding features on this module within two weeks so we can do a
> bit of QA on the module and make the thing as stable as possible. After
> the 0.11.0 release, all engines are go again.
> 
> Also, assuming GNOME CVS is finally moved to SVN on the 14th, I will be
> restructuring the entire core project, fixing up the build system,
> making it work in MonoDevelop, and migrating some of the plugins found
> in core to -official-plugins. I'll also be moving -official-plugins to
> GNOME SVN at this time too so we can start getting the module
> translated. This means anyone maintaining a plugin in this module needs
> to go ahead and request a GNOME CVS account if you don't already have
> one. Make me the mentor/point of contact/confirmation/whatever on the
> request so I can validate it.
> 
> Let's make 0.11.0 really rock as the first release in this new cycle!


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Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
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