Stephen Lau wrote: > 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 > > For followup, the dependencies can be seen here: http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/browser/vendor
cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
