Re: Amarok idea need feedback
Dear Igor, While you're at submitting your proposal to the Melange thingy, I would like to ask you to provide more details about the specific API calls and/or libraries that you are going to employ. The reason for this is that vkontakte's API is terribly incosistent, and no one would like to see this project crash and burn because of a lacking API functionality, or something of the kind. I think the Russian Amarok users would be very pleased if you implement this project. Best, -- Edward "Hades" Toroshchin, dr_lepper on irc.freenode.org ___ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
Re: Amarok idea need feedback
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:46, Igor Vileikis wrote: > I hope someone will consider my idea and I'll get feedback > Could you please submit your proposal to http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 ? Please make sure you format it well and provide a timeline. All proposals need to be uploaded to melange within the next 3 days to be evaluated. Regards, Myriam -- Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) ___ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
Re: Amarok idea need feedback
Hi Igor, (Teo,) Sorry for the late response - I am not an Amarok developer, so I usually do not read messages from this mailing list. The idea of full intergration of vk.com into Amarok sounds interesting. The following are some existing applications, scripts and libraries that implement intergration of vk.com into KDE and Amarok you might not know about: 1. There is an Amarok script for searching and downloading music from vk.com: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/VK_search?content=121702 This script does not implement listing your friends nor music albums at vk.com though. Also, this script does not ask the user to authenticate - I do not even know what API it uses to get anonymous access to all publicly available music at vk.com. 2. I have written a minimal Akonadi Resource to communicate with Vkontakte: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/pim/akonadi-vkontakte (this is irrelevant to Amarok though) 3. I have written a KIPI Plugin for exporting photos to Vkontakte: https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/repository/revisions/master/show/vkontakte (this is irrelevant to Amarok too) 4. What might be actually interesting for you is that I have written a library for communication with Vkontakte in KDE: https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/libs/libkvkontakte It is very minimalistic and only implements those vk.com API methods that are used by the above two projects (`akonadi-vkontakte` and `kipi-plugins/vkontakte`). Listing your friends is implemented, but listing of audio albums is not. About mentorship: In my opinion, I cannot mentor this project because I am not an Amarok developer. Amarok developers can try to convince me I am wrong though. ;) 2012/3/24 Igor Vileikis : > I hope someone will consider my idea and I'll get feedback > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1akDrnxW2aBOSVaOdOmwQOvi0XD3h1gl8xvhZGV18MA4/edit -- Alexander Potashev ___ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
Re: Amarok idea need feedback
Hey Teo! I've improved my proposal, could u check it out please? * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1akDrnxW2aBOSVaOdOmwQOvi0XD3h1gl8xvhZGV18MA4/edit * Is there need to post it to kde-de...@kde.org ? U also said vk.com isn't familiar to u. Is it same situation with other mentors? Does this idea interesting for Amarok team? ___ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
Re: Amarok idea need feedback
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 19:55, Igor Vileikis wrote: > Hey Teo! > > I've improved my proposal, could u check it out please? > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1akDrnxW2aBOSVaOdOmwQOvi0XD3h1gl8xvhZGV18MA4/edit > > Is there need to post it to kde-de...@kde.org ? > > U also said vk.com isn't familiar to u. Is it same situation with other > mentors? Does this idea interesting for Amarok team? Hello Igor, No need to post to kde-devel :) Your proposal looks good, we appreciate your honesty about your other committments and knowledge of the technologies involved. I can't speak for everybody in the team but generally I believe Vkontakte integration might be quite interesting, though it's not one of our priorities at the moment. I don't know if any of our mentors has knowledge of vk.com, I'd say that's unlikely. GSoC is a very competitive program with a limited number of spots, and we don't know now many spots we get in advance so I can't comment on the likelihood of your idea making the cut. Cheers, -- Teo ___ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
Re: Amarok idea need feedback
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 19:20, Igor Vileikis wrote: > We have a social network vkontakte.ru, for the rest of the world it's > vk.com. Probably that would be noticable for you. Anyway i'll change the > title in my proposal. > > > 25 марта 2012 г. 21:07 пользователь Igor Vileikis > написал: > >> Well, the idea comed to me from project >> Social music - Tomahawk features in Amarok >> Cause there are the same features but collections taken from Vkontakte and >> there is no need to friends being online for streaming there music. >> I also think to subscribe on project of Tomahawk features too. >> >> Well I read about features of Amarok's services framework and was looking >> for researching services code base before the start. I don't think that >> it'll cause any problem. >> I even interested on working on my project idea if it won't be confirmed, >> cause it would be a good mark in my summary and a lot >> of companies are interested in specialists with the knowledge of Vkontakte >> API. >> >> I've a lot of friends from germany and finland who are using Vkontakte, so >> u can also try it out. I think that russian and some europe users of Amorok >> and Vkontakte will be glad to see this service in Amarok's services list. >> >> I'll try to aprove my proposal at the moment. >> >> And one more question. Is it better to write to irc channel of amorok all, >> write here on mail list ? Mailing list is best, thanks. Cheers, -- Teo ___ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
Re: Amarok idea need feedback
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:46, Igor Vileikis wrote: > I hope someone will consider my idea and I'll get feedback > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1akDrnxW2aBOSVaOdOmwQOvi0XD3h1gl8xvhZGV18MA4/edit Hello Igor, Thank you for contacting us. I've taken a look at your proposal. I have to admit I've never heard about Vkontakte before. Your proposal looks good. Are you familiar with Amarok's services framework? I'd also like to see some more details in the timeline. Cheers, -- Teo ___ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
Amarok idea need feedback
I hope someone will consider my idea and I'll get feedback https://docs.google.com/document/d/1akDrnxW2aBOSVaOdOmwQOvi0XD3h1gl8xvhZGV18MA4/edit ___ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
