Due to the recent news Regarding Stallman's heart attack, I ended up on the wikipedia page for The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and I was reading the "Guidelines for creating good opensource software". Number 3 says:
Repost from exaile.org:
This month is my company's national convention. This combined with a secret project I'm working on after hours means I basically have no time to work on Exaile until October. So, no thanks to me, Exaile 0.3.0.1 has been released. This one is brought to you by the other members of the team, and is a bugfix release for 0.3.0. This includes fixing the bug that was causing 0.2.14->0.3 migration problems for most people. Enjoy!
Yup, you probably heard it here last. I've been super busy irl, and just haven't had the time to throw up a blog entry just yet, but 0.3.0 final is out and you can grab it from the Exaile downloads page.
Yeah, that's right.
Check out http://www.exaile.org for more information.
Xubuntu has been rethinking their default applications for their next release, Karmic. Personally, I think it's great, but not just because of the topic of this article.
Next Tuesday (July 28th) starting at 14:00 GMT (7:00 am MST) the Exaile team will be hosting the very first Exaile bugday. Our goal will be to hammer out as many bugs as we possibly can. SiDi has set up a Launchpad Group that will have it's own branch (based from the 0.3 trunk) so that people wanting to participate will be able to commit their changes.
Exaile development has been very active in the past few weeks. We are working very hard to make our August goal. As well as picking up mathbr as a developer, we've had quite a few contributors adding/fixing a lot of things. If you're like me, this screenshot makes you drool (click on it to get a larger view):
Don't worry, we're still here, and still hard at work. I thought I would give an update since it's been quite a while since the last one.
I got an email from Amazon today saying that they were changing some things in their API. Aside from changing the name of the services from "Amazon Web Service" to "Product Advertising API", by August 15th, they are requiring that users of the API send the previously optional HMAC signature when authenticating. What does this mean to you?
Following up on an earlier article, I'm providing a link to the Mac OS X installation instructions that Lasse Riis has written up for us on our wiki.
In just the last month or so, there have been a few people in the #exaile channel on freenode asking if Exaile works in OS X. I honestly didn't know.
This week we've worked on the following:
This week I've been focusing on album art support. It was actually Aren's idea that, from the beginning, we should create pluggable interfaces for things like dynamic playlists, album art, lyrics, devices, and etc. This means that album art support wouldn't be hard coded to one place like Amazon, but anyone could add a plugin to support album art from anywhere. Currently, there are three album art plugins: local search, which checks local directories for image names like 'cover.jpg' and etc., Amazon, and Last.FM. The idea is that each plugin will be searched in order until something is found. Also Aren's idea: the order that each plugin is searched should be user definable...
Ok, so I posted the weekly tarball a little early, because it's got lots of cool new stuff. Here are the things that have been completed since the last roundup:
Exaile 0.3.0a now has a working install target in the Makefile, so I've decided to start posting automated weekly tarballs for those who don't want to use bzr snapshots. The first of these is located at http://www.exaile.org/files/weekly. They will be posted every Wednesday at 5:00pm.
It's been longer than a week since the last roundup, so I figured it was time. Since the first 0.3 alpha release, the following items have been implemented:
Some of you might have noticed that the Shoutcast plugin hasn't worked for a while, and wasn't fixed with the 0.2.14 update. This is because they changed the way that their site looks, and so the plugin wasn't able to parse it...
Exaile 0.2.14 and 0.3 alpha have been released!
A nice fellow emailed and asked me if I could post a monthly (possibly weekly) roundup on Exaile 0.3 so that people can follow what's going on. It sounded like a good idea to me, so here's the first one.