Yay, thanks Olivier! Offers to help update: - Stefan Dertkis (original poster, coder?) - Eshtan Robateau (architect? + coder?) - Olivier Churlaud (architect? + coder?) - Andrew Lake (UI design + architecture support if needed) + VDG
Thanks, Andrew On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:55 AM Olivier Churlaud wrote: > I would be happy to help too. > > I'm not really familiar with the KDE libs but really ok with Qt. I've > tried a lot of music apps (Clementine, Banshee, iTunes, Amarok, > Rhythmbox...) so I may be able to help for some decisions. > > I did some code architecture and ergonomic design for my main project > Macaw-Movies (which might be bad arch and bad ergonomics compared to what > you will propose :D) so maybe I can help on this too. > > I'm following the discussions even if I don't have much to say until now... > > Cheers > Olivier > > Olivier CHURLAUD > Engineer Student at Ecole Centrale de Lyon > in Dual Degree at TU Berlin, M.Sc. Elektrotechnik > @: oliv...@churlaud.com > tel: +49 (0)1575-2931348 > in: http://linkedin.com/in/olivierchurlaud > web: http://olivier.churlaud.com > > Le 04/08/2015 17:47, Andrew Lake a écrit : > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-multimedia mailing > listkde-multimedia@kde.orghttps://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-multimedia mailing list > kde-multime...@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia >
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