Re: multimedia and 2.2

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:16, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jorn Baayen">
> 
> > > Do you think Rhythmbox can been feature-frozen by the end of October?
> > > That doesn't mean perfect, bug-fixed, slick, etc. It just means feature
> > > frozen.
> > 
> > It depends on how picky the feature freeze is. Like, I'm fairly sure we
> > could be major feature frozen by then. For example, having cd and internet
> > radio in.
> 
> Dude. We already have a CD player - that'll do for 2.2. Is 'Internet Radio'
> a *really* critical feature that won't make Rhythmbox worthwhile for 2.2 if
> it doesn't go in?

No, not critical, but since both are being worked on atm and probably
ready within too much time it shouldn't be much of a prob :)

> 
> See, if you feature freeze the coolest music player this side of iTunes for
> 2.2, and it gets into the Desktop release, you've got another 6 months to
> hack on cool extras, such as burning, cd playing, 'net radio, soundex
> matching in the tunes database, whatever.
> 
> It's okay to skip those particular features to give our users a kickarse
> music player for 2.2.
> 
> > But I think we'd need some flexibility like still being able to move
> > stuff around, change behaviour of things, add and remove little features
> > here and there (for example album cover support, renaming files, etc).
> 
> Sure, and the best way to make sure that the polish and finishing touches
> are done is to punt some of the less interesting big features to the next
> version.
> 
> This is all part of the boring responsibilities of being in the Desktop
> release, and I'm sure that if you're happy to do this, everyone will say,
> "Oh, cool, there's a good maintainer who knows what's important" or
> something pithy like that. :-)

Well, sure, the focus is on fixes and speed now but we also got some UI
fixing to do which might involve adding/removing stuff.

Cheers

> 
> - Jeff
> 
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