Amarok Blog

Got my e-ticket in the mail this morning: I'm going to Europe! First, flying into Amsterdam, where I will probably sleep all day and party all night. Not because I'm some sort of nocturnal party animal, but Europe is 7 hours ahead of Missouri so I don't have much choice. Last time I went to Europe (flew into Amsterdam that time as well) I got over my jet lag fairly quickly through the judicious use of naps; hopefully this time will be the same.

I just loved Amsterdam last time I was there, a big city with lots bike traffic instead of car or vespa.

From there we go on south to the Multimedia Meeting. It will be great to finally see all these people I've known over IRC for >1 year in the flesh. I'm still in the midst of finals this week, next week I plan on preparing some ideas to bring to the meeting. This semester I had a Software Engineering class, some of it was academic silliness, but I think some of it might be useful to think about. Especially in light of how the latter stages of this 1.4 release has been marked by many regressions. I think some "system decomposition" is in-order (read: reorganize the source tree). Automatic regression testing would also be a useful tool. Sometimes I think a more formal decision making process would make sense, though this would be contrary to how amaroK has ever done things.

We do certainly need to gain some consensus on when would be the best time to start amaroK 2.0 development. Personally I'm in the "as soon as 1.4 is doing well" camp.

From there Seb and I are going to tour around a bit. Seb wants to go to Belgium for some reason, but it is only like 10 minutes away from the MM meeting, so why not. Then I'm going to London; I've never been to England before so that should be fun.

I will join Seb in thanking the folks at KDE.nl like Martijn Klingens and Adriaan de Groot for organizing the event, and of course, paying for my ticket.