Tuesday, March 24, 2009

An Update on Banshee

A Stable Release Banshee 1.4.3 was released on March 4th. It's a stable release fixing several freezes and MTP device support bugs. Leaping Forward Things are moving ahead at an awesome pace in trunk! Our community members are consistently in the lists of top GNOME bug filers, closers, patch contributors, and patch reviewers. You can keep informed about all their fixes and features landing in trunk in the ChangeLog. I hope we'll have a release from trunk – called 1.5.0, aka 1.6 beta 1 – very soon. We have over two months of awesome fixes and new features to unleash. If you want to hack on Banshee, there has never been a better time. There are more than four of us actively reviewing Banshee patches from long-time regulars and out-of-the-blue newcomers, and we're waiting to hear from you! Bug Reduction Effort A few weeks ago we had over 200 bugs with no response. Today, due to the efforts of our bug triaging team, we have 110. Anybody can help us out by reviewing the list of Banshee bugs, correcting the metadata fields, asking for more information, providing insights, confirming they can reproduce the bug, letting the reporter know somebody is out there and cares! etc. To get started, do a bit of reading, find a bug that looks lonely, and update or comment on it with your thoughts on how to move it forward. Join us in #banshee to get pointers and assurance.

3 comments:

  1. Is there any word on Banshee on Windows, or is the Banshee team still waiting to port the core to the Windows platform?

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  2. Indeed Banshee is getting much much better, congratulations!

    BTW, could I get a review on the patch in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564355 ? It's blocking me to hack on more things that depend on it being committed. Thanks :)

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  3. Is there any plans on supporting other internet radios now that last.fm is going to charge for all it's streams?

    https://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/lastfm-radio-to.html

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