What is happening to the development of Nightingale?
I have been watching what is going on in the forums and I am glad to see so much interest in the project. I have pulled everything together that was posted and with what I already know about the project to determine our first Roadmap, and how this project is going to proceed.
First off let me explain how this project will go forward. We will have two projects under the Nightingale name. The first project will be the Songbird for Linux build, this will be mainly a re-branding and add-ons that contribute to running on Linux. We will build both 32 and 64 bit version of Songbird under the name of Nightingale COS (Child of Songbird). We will be using version 1.8 for the initial build. The second project will be a fork of Songbird, this will be a more Linux specific build using existing libraries (XULRunner, Gstreamer, TagLib, etc). This project will allow us to get packages done for Ubuntu and others. We will also have more freedom to make Nightingale the best Linux media player we can.
Here is the initial roadmap for these two projects:
Nightingale COS
Nightingale (Fork)
Notes:
More to come....
I have been watching what is going on in the forums and I am glad to see so much interest in the project. I have pulled everything together that was posted and with what I already know about the project to determine our first Roadmap, and how this project is going to proceed.
First off let me explain how this project will go forward. We will have two projects under the Nightingale name. The first project will be the Songbird for Linux build, this will be mainly a re-branding and add-ons that contribute to running on Linux. We will build both 32 and 64 bit version of Songbird under the name of Nightingale COS (Child of Songbird). We will be using version 1.8 for the initial build. The second project will be a fork of Songbird, this will be a more Linux specific build using existing libraries (XULRunner, Gstreamer, TagLib, etc). This project will allow us to get packages done for Ubuntu and others. We will also have more freedom to make Nightingale the best Linux media player we can.
Here is the initial roadmap for these two projects:
Nightingale COS
- Version 1.8 (Based off of Songbird 1.8) [~Jan 1 2011]
- Branding
- Text
- Feather
- Icons/Images
- Text
- Branding
- Addons
- Notification
- Notification
- Version 1.9 [~Apr 1 2011]
- Addons
- CD Ripping
- Lyrics Master
- CD Ripping
- Addons
- Version 2.0 [~May 1 2011]
- Addons
- Shoutcast
- Now Playing List
- Shoutcast
- Addons
- Version 2.1 [~Aug 1 2011]
- Addons
- iPod
- MSC
- MTP
- iPod
- Addons
Nightingale (Fork)
- Version 1.0 [~Aug 1 2011]
- Native Xulrunner
- Native GStreamer
- Native Taglib
- (Other libraries currently built with Songbird)
- Native Xulrunner
Notes:
- Removeal of the browser
- We are unable to actually remove the browser, we can however hide it and remove the items (address bar, tab bar) that are related to a web browser.
- We are unable to actually remove the browser, we can however hide it and remove the items (address bar, tab bar) that are related to a web browser.
- Time-lines
- The time-lines are approximate.
- Both versions (COS and Fork) are going to be worked on in parallel.
- This is based on only a few people working on Nightingale, more may mean faster
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- The time-lines are approximate.
More to come....
Stevo - Molder of bits and bytes in an electronic wonderland.