GSoC project presentation: Statistics synchronization for collections and Last.fm

[Matěj Laitl]

Hi Amarok developers and users,
this is my overdue presentation of my accepted GSoC project [1]. Many of you 
already know me, I'm Matěj Laitl a.k.a. strohel on IRC, I live in Czech 
Republic very close to the beautiful city of Prague (that you should definitely 
visit one day). I've rewritten iPod collection plugin and I've been working on 
transcode support and general bugfixing lately.

My GSoC project is called Statistics synchronization for pluggable devices and 
Last.fm, you can read all the details including proposed implementation and 
time-line on project page [1]. My mentor is Myriam Schweingruber a.k.a. 
Mamarok.

In short:
 * In the first part, I will implement inter-collection statistics 
synchronization. I will strive to merge this to master as soon as it is ready, 
this should be in first weeks of July. 
 * In the second part, I'll put existing last.fm scrobbling support behind an 
abstraction layer and then implement statistics synchronization with 
scrobbling services on top of this layer.
 * the code will be publicly available on [2] in branches named gsoc or 
similar; I encourage you to test these, but please note that I will `git 
rebase` these branches rather often so you may get git errors when pulling
 * general code cleanups and bug-fixes will go directly to master as no one 
opposed that suggestion.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome, I've already received some suggestions 
(from ownCloud-related people) and an offer to test my work, which is good, but 
I'll gladly embrace more.

[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/strohel/15001
[2] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Famarok%2Flaitl%2Famarok.git&a=summary

Cheers,
		Matěj Laitl