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

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Matěj Laitl <matej at laitl.cz> wrote:
> 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

Great! Rebase early, rebase often ;) Looking forward to seeing your
stuff in master.
You rok!

Cheers,
-- 
Teo