Re: [Banshee-List] Moovida 2.0 and Banshee

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:16 PM, zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com> wrote:
> I noticed that Fluendo is now using Banshee as part of their Moovida
> 2.0 release.
>
> There are a number of nice features in it that I noticed. Two of the
> biggest are Windows support (haven't tried it yet) and the video
> identifier plugin.
>
> So is there collaboration between Team Banshee and Fluendo? Will we
> see Moovida's improvements merged to Banshee?

We (the Banshee team) are trying to work closely with them, to benefit
from their patches and avoid a fork.  Unfortunately internally they
chose to use SVN, so the barrier to getting their patches to us is
higher than if they used git.  They did make a public git repo on
gitorious with the intention of pushing patches there, but I don't
think they have yet.  I think they've been in a crunch mode trying to
get the initial release out, so while they've submitted (and we've
iterated and accepted) several good patches through bugzilla, I hope
we'll be seeing more soon.  They do a good job on their website
(http://moovida.com) of sending people our way to contribute, too.

Gabriel