Date December 2008

Scheduled downtime for Blog and Wiki

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger

UPDATE @ 10:00: Wiki is back up.
UPDATE @ 8:34: Blog is back up.

We’ll be doing some end of the year clean up in our data center tomorrow, Tuesday December 30th. We expect our Blog and Wiki to be down for about 2 hours. The maintenance window will start at approximately 8:00 am PST (view in [...]

Riffing into 2009 with Hendrix

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger

In the midst of end of the year holiday cheers, we’ve busily been planning the release to follow Songbird 1.0. Based on the great feedback you gave us via Get Satisfaction and those pesky surveys you diligently filled, we will focus on improving the audio playback and management experience as well as continue to enhance performances. This [...]

sb_core winner for October/November 2008 and credits!

By stevel stevel

I’m a little late in posting this, so apologies to all, but we got a little caught up in the 1.0 release.  Our winner for October & November for sb_core is Mitchell Field!
Anyone who hangs out in #songbird on IRC will recognise Mitch (a.k.a. Mitch_1_2)… he’s the prolific developer who brought us ChatZilla’s Songbird support [...]

Songbird path to Agility – Part III

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger

In the previous two installments of this series on Agile development at Songbird, I’ve covered our move from waterfall to Agile and provided an in-depth look at some actual release cycles. In this last post, I’m going to introduce a tool – which I gave the uninspiring name sdpbot – built internally to help facilitate the tracking of [...]

Conference round-up, builds, and distributions

By stevel stevel

For our Songbird blog readers who may not read Planet Mozilla or my personal blog.  I spent a few days last week in Mountain View for FOSSCamp, the Ubuntu Developer Summit, the Mozilla Add-ons Open House, and the first ever Add-on-Con.  Besides reinforcing just how much I hate Bay Area rush hour commuting, I had [...]