Albert and I have a project proposal, we'd like to get the Desktop
Community as a sponsoring community group if possible.
Project Short Name: Nightingale
Project Descriptive Name: Port the Songbird Desktop Media Player to the
OpenSolaris platform
(Short name chosen to avoid using trademarks of POTI, Inc. and Sun
Microsystems - I'm open to suggestions if people have better choices)
Project Leaders:
Albert Lee (trisk)
Stephen Lau (stevel)
Project Description:
The Songbird media player is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac
OS X) desktop media player that "plays the web". In addition to
supporting the usual media library management/player capabilities, it
presents APIs to add-ons (extensions) and websites allowing for
bidirectional interaction between the media player and the web. It
leverages existing open source software, namely it is based on the
XULRunner codebase from the Mozilla project. It also leverages other
technologies such as GStreamer and VLC for its media playback. There
are both Songbird and OpenSolaris users who would like to see it ported
to OpenSolaris. We have an existing set of patches and work done, but
have run into hurdles with XULRunner and could use the help and skills
of other Desktop and Mozilla contributors in the Desktop Community.
This project intends to port Songbird, and its dependencies to
OpenSolaris. Patches will be kept in sync with upstream releases and
every effort will be made to contribute and integrate sources back into
upstream source trees.
References:
http://www.songbirdnest.com
cheers,
steve
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stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
