Status: Brain-storming/wish-list making; nothing here is finalized

Do

• Remove many of the testing/dep permutations

  • Drop libbanshee & src/Backends/Banshee.GStreamer in favor of gst# & src/Backends/Banshee.GStreamerSharp

    • Mostly done, pending task:

      • video is working but only if we remove the glib bundle in gst# (custom gst#). -> Update gst# master

      • Missing-codec handler: Testing needed
  • Drop libossifer in favor of new webkit#/soup# bindings (optional dep) (WIP on webkit# branch)

    • We should use the WebkitGtk bindings generated by bindinator: https://github.com/andreiagaita/bindinator

  • Provide well-tested bundle for distros lacking these deps
• Switch configuration system to dconf/GSettings
• Do an API review/pruning; publish decent API docs
• Create FDO Secrets DBus API/binding
• Add Webkit (Amazon/Miro Guide) support on Windows
• Get Windows release to at least Beta quality

• Clean up unused code: RemoteAudio, Sample, SqlDebugConsole, Template

• Fix Grid view a11y

Maybe

• Remove Boo extension (we have marked as non-default for now, from 2.9.0 onwards)
• Remove Unix/System IO backends, require GIO?
• Online updates for device support, extensions?

• Store CoreCache in separate db file, but persist it (not TEMP) and restore complete player state (last source, scroll position, search status)

• Change website to support i18n and patches from folks

• Video View: update patch to last git master & Work on it to fix issue/improve features

Done

• Bump Mono to 2.8.2
• Drop NDesk.DBus in favor of dbus-sharp
• Drop HAL/Banshee.Hal in favor of GIO/udev hardware backend (optional dep on udev)
• Drop ipod-sharp/Dap.Ipod in favor of libgpod backend
• Migrate to ftp.gnome.org for release hosting

• DVD Support: update current patch to last git master & Review/Merge it in main branch

• Bump Mono.Addins to 0.6.2

• Make browser filters (artist/album/year/genre/etc) configurable bgo#540873

• Drop Gtk#2 in favor of Gtk#3

• Remove ENABLE_ATK, HAVE_GTK/GDK/GLIB* conditionals

• Integrate with GNOME 3 notifications

1. Long term objectives and ideas

Here be ponies and unicorns...

• Improve performance of extension infrastructure
  • Lazy load assemblies
  • "metadata" provided in code should be moved to proper Mono.Addins metadata
  • In cases where extensions (which would not be loaded/reflected) need to auto-start instead of start on user-demand, extra metadata/Mono.Addins deps can be taken to "auto-start after X seconds", etc.
  • Define triggers for loading addins

• sqlite3 shared/concurrent writes : allow multiple processes, get rid of Booter (see http://www.sqlite.org/draft/wal.html)

• Notifications
  • Unified notification API for in-app and system-wide notifications
  • Browser-like notification bar?

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