Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] How about a release ?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 20:52 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:28:04PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > sorry if the question has already been asked too much, but I’m wondering
> > whether we can expect a new release of rhythmbox any time soon. There
> > are many bugs fixed in the SVN, and the current version is not suited at
> > all to nautilus 2.22+.
> > 
> > Of course, we can use a SVN checkout, but wouldn’t it be better to have
> > a release?
> 
> I hope to be able to make a new release in the next month or so.  This
> will probably be numbered 0.12.0.  After that, I'm not planning to do
> much new development work on the rhythmbox project as it currently
> exists.  I'll still fix (some) bugs and review patches, but it's too
> much of a dead end for me to do more than that.

Why is it too much of a dead-end? The feature list stacks up nicely
against other music players, and although using C might be making our
life harder in some cases, I'm not sure I see ways to replace it in many
distributions.