Sunday, April 27. 2008Amarok SoC: Scripting 2.0
I'd like to welcome Peter Zhou (peterzl on IRC), one of the Amarok SoC students for 2008. I'll let his words introduce him:
Hi my name is Peter Zhou, I am a Mainland China student pursuing bachelor degree in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. I am glad that I can now witness the growth of Amarok by involving the core development team. I will redo the scripting interface and rewrite some GUI functions in order to enable the external access to the whole Amarok GUI interface. Then the wolf would have a even more powerful inside.^_^ Good to work with all of you! This is indeed so exciting! Looking forward to seeing you guys in Akademy! Sunday, April 27. 2008Amarok Resolved
Dear Tristan, I like further developed ideas, mostly, and I also like to develop ideas further.
...I just read such a further developed idea and since I like it a lot, I am goint to develop it further (normal process for me). Tomorrow Amarok, Linux market leader in the Music Application segment, will announce something revolutionary. We came to the decision that others know better and therefore we will sync our release schedule to Ubuntu, Linux market leader in the Home User Operating System segment. Our current model of partly time-based and partly feature-based release planing is apparently creating enormous inefficiency in the development of our high-quality software. Mainly because of this we will do 2 releases per year, each 2 days before Ubuntu releases a new version, so that the build servers have enough time to build the packages. In order to join this with our very fast and feature rich development we will provide at least 25% new or changed code in a time-frame of one year (2 releases), we hope that by setting this minimal growth rate we are able to increase our userbase by 213% per year. To support these alternations quality assurance will be reduced to a minimum as it can cause scaling issues in combination with this new concept. This is however only the first step. In a long-term view we aim to breakup the underlying project of Amarok and become a 100% part of the Ubuntu project to share resources and create a strong leader in thew newly created market of Music Home User Appliaction Operating Systems. We also want to prevent our users from wasting half their life with compilation, so we will stop releaseing source tarballs but instead only offer Ubuntu DEB-files. We will also suggest KDE and all the distributions, we have intensive collaboration with, to start a strong binding to the Ubuntu project as well, and possibly become part of it. Watch out for the announcement and the moving of our structures from KDE/Amarok ones to Ubuntu/Launchpad. A nice day wishes your soon-not-to-be-anymore-project-manager. Sunday, April 27. 2008Amarok SoC: Context View
I'd like to welcome William Soares (Liw- on IRC), one of the Amarok SoC students for 2008. I'll let his words introduce him:
My name is William Viana Soares, I live in Spain although I am from Brazil and this is my 4th year as a Computer Science Engineering student. My goal during this summer will be to make Amarok Context View more usable. I will focus on the the use of libplasma capabilities to create a nice zooming user interface where all the context information will lay. I will also be working on Amarok's Plasma packaging system and in the development of new applets with contextual information. I'm really excited that my application was accepted and I'm looking forward to start coding and see my improvements done for the sake of Amarok and my own since I'm an Amarok user  We are very glad to have someone working on the Context View again this summer, and i personally can't wait to see all the exciting things that he comes up with. |
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