Hi, I can help test and maybe some easy tasks coding ( I have not coded with C++ for some years and have to get in again).
Yours Konrad Am 04.08.2015 5:47 nachm. schrieb Andrew Lake <jamboar...@gmail.com>: > > So far Stefan identified the following as needed: > -) More People to discuss & flesh out the vision [1] > -) A motivated team of designers, software architects, coders & testers, > dedicated to creating a modern music player for our users > > I think it shouldn't be difficult to get input on fleshing out the vision. We > could use the KDE Forums or a blog post for that. I also think we won't have > much trouble getting testers. You can count on help from the VDG for design > and from myself to directly support this effort. So really what remains from > the list is software architect(s) and coder(s). > > I count the following people who appear to have made explicit offers to help: > - Stefan Dertkis (original poster, coder?) > - Eshtan Robateau (architect? + coder?) > - Andrew Lake (UI design + architecture support if needed) + VDG > > If anyone else is interested, please, please speak up. I genuinely think > there is clear value in what Stefan proposes. The current VDG Music Player > design, including the vision, personas and scenarios, are far from set in > stone so we can certainly revisit it as necessary. Also I think we can > eventually work out the practical details of what code base or pre-existing > solutions we could take advantage of in order to fulfill the vision and avoid > the perils of creating yet-another-music-player. Whether that solution is > from-scratch or as simple as a skin doesn't concern me terribly at this point. > > Stefan, I suggest we take a chance and start with a small core team of folks > who are willing to volunteer at this early stage. If that team can produce > something concrete in the near term, we can work on growing the contributor > base when people have something more concrete to look at. > > Hope this helps, > Andrew > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 3:21 AM Eshton Robateau wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >To solve this I think three very central question need to be answered >> >> >very precisely before doing anything else. >> >> > >> >> >1. How many people will actively commit to working on this as their >> >> >*main* project? >> >> >2. What does the primary target audience of Plasma even need? >> >> >3. What do the contributors want to actually have in the end >> >> >understanding their own time constraints? >> >> I'm committed to work on this as main. I've been swimming in the bangarang >> codebase and so far we're almost rewriting the entire thing. From my >> perspective, porting is near rewrite, so it's better to have a good design >> and vision from the start. Might I suggest that we simply have a survey of >> what our users (plasma or general) want from a music player instead of >> relying on personas. It seems a bit naive to assume we only have casual >> users and power users. Feedback from actual users is more concrete than >> anything persona we can invent. FWIW I want a music player that plays music >> and supports playlists and media info, I'm not likely to use other features >> much. >> >> ------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bangarang mailing list >> bangar...@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/bangarang _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
