Meeting Summary & Roadmap Proposal

[Iago Toral <itoral igalia com>]

Hello,

this is a summary of the meeting he held on IRC today where we sketched 
some of the short/medium-term tasks we would like to consider for Grilo 
in 2011. I grouped them by priority, but the split only reflects my 
personal opinion and we can discuss priorities for specific tasks if you 
do not agree with them. Also, I assigned some of the tasks to specific 
people when I think that made sense, feel free to complain or claim 
other tasks:

* High priority:

- Wiki: Revamp/Update the wiki page in l.g.o with the latest 
developments and news, etc, do some cleanup and write the new roadmap 
items. (Iago)
- Wiki: Define someone responsible for keeping the wiki up-to-date from 
now on as well as some guidelines for things that we should always put 
there. (Iago)
- Documentation: Include documentation on how to write plugins for 
Grilo. (Iago)
- Releasing: Include "Check python", "Check examples", "Check tests" 
and "Check Documentation" to our release checklist (Juan).
- GNOME: Totem integration. (Juan)
- Misc: Finish the work on GrlOptions and GrlCaps (Guillaume)
- Redesign GrlMediaPlugin hierarchy (Juan)
- XBMC Integration (Unassigned)
   -> Analyze plugins for XBMC and see how we could do one for Grilo
   -> Write a Grilo plugin for XBMC
   -> Interact with the community and check if they would be interested 
in using Grilo seriously (as in writing plugins for or porting plugins 
directly to it)

* Medium priority:

- Define a small and practical test suite for Grilo (Guillaume)
- D-Bus API / Grilo media server (Juan)
- Define a mechanism to ease plugin development of simple XML/HTML 
based services (Guillaume)
- Documentation: Fix our gtk-doc so that it renders class hierarchy 
properly, Iago to file a bug (Victor)
- Documentation: Include more detailed information on how to setup the 
environment for Grilo (Iago)
- Plugins: Write an iMDB/tMDB plugin, maybe using it as a test ground 
for librest and then decide if we want to use it more generally. 
(Unassigned)
- Plugins: Fix the shoutcast plugin (Unassigned)
- Plugins: Review and improve the current plugin set. (Unassigned)
      -> Check that current features are properly implemented (from the 
user point of view)
      -> Check that we are covering all the important features for that 
plugin

* Low priority:

- Documentation: check options to extract the examples included in the  
documentation (and then link these examples from the docs) so they 
become standalone programs that can  be built and executed separately 
(this would also help with keeping them always updated). (Juan)
- Plugins: Port Flickr plugin to use Frogr's Flickr library 
(Unassigned)
- Documentation: Migrate tutorials to Mallard (Juan)
- GNOME: Grilo gvfs backend (Guillaume)

I think I did not miss anything, but feel free to remind me if I did.

I think we should try to get ourselves to act on all the High Priority 
and Medium priority topics before the end of 2011, that would of course 
depend on how much time we have to work on all this stuff, but let's put 
that as something to aim for.

Iago