Request for comments for Banshee transition feature proposal

[David Nielsen]

2009/2/24 Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com>

> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:44 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> > Per the request of Brian Pebble I am submitting the following feature
> > proposal for the desktop SIG to comment on:
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BansheeAsDefaultMediaplayer
>
> Given that the feature request is a knee-jerk reaction[1] to one
> Rhythmbox maintainer saying he sees the current code base as a dead-end
> for a few use cases, I'm pretty happy to say I'd refuse the idea
> point-blank.


As I explained to you in a reply to the accusatorial private email you sent
me, this is clearly based on the technical superiority of Banshee. I have
previously expressed an interest in proposing this.

http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/little-hopes-for-fedora-11-and-beyond/-
posted on December 5, 2008

Item 5:
Banshee as the default media player, with it´s aggressive development plan
and responsive developers it seems to make a lot more sense to me as our
default. It also presents much nicer bling and cooler features. I like that
we can count on releases happening often with major improvements happening
each time. E.g. in the pipeline now is things like rockbox integration
meaning we might be able to offer users a way to convert a player to use
only free software and free formats soon (something that seems like an issue
for some due to codec patents).

Now will you please show your fellow Fedora contributors some common decency
and respect.

It also seems the latest stable release crashes when playing videos on
> my machine, and spits out loads of uncaught exceptions on startup.
>
> FWIW, I've added my comments to:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/BansheeAsDefaultMediaplayer
> and filed the two bugs I found whilst starting up Banshee:


I will reply to these as soon as possible

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487117
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487120


Thank you for your bugreports, as you will have noticed I have already
started working on them.

- David
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