[Banshee-List] Some project questions

["Albert Krawczyk" <u4232169 anu edu au>]

Hi,

This email is more related to the history of the project than anything else,
so if any long time contributors could shed some light on this I would be
very grateful. 

The reason I'm asking is because I'm doing a research project on Banshee,
and I figured the best people to ask are the developers :D

I'm currently looking at the project admin structure. 

- How exactly do you guys decide which way to take Banshee? I've been
through the mailing list and I haven't seen much discussion on what the next
feature is, when the next release will be etc. Do the devs decide this
amongst themselves?
- Between the four main maintainers, do you have roles like 'bug master' and
'release manager' or do you share roles?
- Why was the project started? Fun? Wanted to write in C#?

And something I haven't yet been able to figure out, what exactly does
Novell have to do with banshee? Do they provide funding? Or is it because
they are heavily involved with Mono? 

Thanks hope answering some of these won't be too much trouble, Albert