Nicolas Richeton

I’ll work a lot on Sharemedia this week-end (25/08-26/08) and I’ll be available on IRC/MSN/Mail to introduce the application to new developers and help the current ones to catch up.

Everyone who is interested in contributing to this project should join #sharemedia on irc.freenode.net these days. There, I’ll give advices on how to build Sharemedia from sources, how to create new plugins and improve the existing ones. Ideas are also welcome.

For developers, the bare minimum is to have good a Java skills. This application is developed with RCP/SWT. If you don’t know what RCP is, the following document provides a good technical description of Eclipse RCP : eclipse-platform-whitepaper.pdf (no need to read the JDT – Java Development Tools part)

Here are the current development areas and the corresponding technologies used :

== Primary goals :

* Release Jabber plugin : Due to the latest refactorings, Jabber support was not longer working and thus was not included in ShareMedia releases. This plugin has to be fixed and improved to support library sharing and chat with other users.
(RCP, Smack, Java, Jabber, XML)

* Google plugin improvements : currently, only public albums are supported. Support for private albums and write access should be added.
(RCP, GData, Java)

* Local Library : Several settings should be available to the user, including enabling/disabling “Auto import”
(RCP, Java)

* MP3 player : POC of MP3 support (w/ sharing and streaming)
(RCP, JMF, Java MP3 players)

* Sharing plugin : sharing support for libraries : playlists, picasaweb, jabber …
(RCP)

* Website update : The current website is out of date. It must be updated (Developer docs, features, screencasts…)

== Secondary goals :

* Website publishing library : plug an FTP server as a library and build a complete web gallery from sharemedia…
(RCP, Java, apache commons, HTML, PHP, Flash, …)

* Google Map : locate selected photos on google map.
( RCP, Google Maps, PHP ? )

* Notify users / Alerts of new shared content.

* Flickr library

* Facebook library

* My Computer library : Scan all computer or selected folders for media.

…

See you saturday or sunday.