Holy sb_core, Birdman! (and no, this isn’t the equivalent of the Songbird sh*tting a brick)

Wait. What’s sb_core?

sb_core is our new program for recognizing and giving props to those developers crazy brave enough to venture into core Songbird player development.

Go check out the sb_core page, and you can get all the skinny on what it is, but in short, every developer who submits core patches accumulates points. The sb_core page has a table listing the current period’s core contributors. Every 2 months, we’ll be sending out a bunch of schwag and gifts to recognise the folks who are contributing the most. Basically we just wanted to send some love to the guys who are sitting in IRC day after day hacking on patches, updating Bugzilla, throwing the r? flag, and doing all the hard work to ensure Songbird users get a bug-free and feature-rich media player.

Of course, this is not to diminish our thriving community of Add-on authors and Webpage API developers – I like to think we already do a fairly good job of sending them some love.

If you haven’t hacked on Songbird’s core player code before, go check out our Getting Started Guide, and as always – feel free to ping by email or on IRC. For people looking to hack on some bugs, we’ve gone through our Bugzilla and flagged a bunch of good starter bugs for people to chip a tooth on.