[Cowbell] Getting Cowbell Back Online

[Ian Bentley <ian bentley gmail com>]

Cowbell List & Scott,

I'm interested in getting cowbell back into a usable state.  I've gotton my feet a bit wet looking at the code, which at this time doesn't compile on my system.  The area of issue is:
[From: cowbell/musicbrainz-sharp/MusicBrainz/LocalDisc.cs]
1> Uri submission_url;
2> public Uri SubmissionUrl {
3> get { return submission_url ?? submission_url = BuildSubmissionUrl (); }
4> }
5> Uri BuildSubmissionUrl ()
6> {
7>  ...snip...
8> }

The compiler blows up on line 3 in the code snippet above.  Now, I'm no expert, but I'm not familiar with any ?? syntax in C or C++, so I suspect that this was put in temporarily, and represents the point of work halting on the project.  Also, submission_url doesn't appear anywhere else in the MusicBrainz directory.  If it is as I suspect the case that implementation was abandoned part way through adding MusicBrainz support, it would help me a lot if I could find out exactly what had been done, and at least a nudge in the right direction as to what still needs to be done.

I have some experience with programming (currently a masters student in CS), but I have never contributed to an open source project before, so I appologize if I haven't introduced myself properly or adhered to all social conventions as I should.

If anyone is out there, can they help me get on my feet with this error, and the status of MusicBrainz support?

Thanks
-- 
Ian Bentley
M.Sc. Student
University of Queens
Kingston, Ontario