[dgplug-users] MediaSpy project begins!

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/29/2009 03:18 PM, Stéphane Péchard wrote:
> Hi,
> As maybe you saw on the wiki page [1], I choose the Movie collection
> catalog project, which is now called MediaSpy. I'm really glad and
> motivated by this project, and I hope I will succeed in providing
> useful software to the community.
> 
> I saw (on IRC) that some of you are interested to join me on the
> MediaSpy team. I'll be happy to find some help to make things faster,
> but also to train myself  to work with several collaborators on a same
> project. Please email me, or ping me on IRC if you're interested, I'm
> often on #dgplug (code name: spechard).

Thank you for taking up the project.

If you are blogging about it and since you would already have a Fedora
account, you might want to consider adding your blog to Planet Fedora

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet/Join

A few additional notes:

Design this program around use cases: What sort of things are you trying
to enable vs features. A feature focus would result in a complex and
awkard UI.

Search is a really critical and central use case. The primary ability is
to search, collate and save searches by metadata.

IMDB provides genre information which is important since if you have a
collection of movies, being able to say, hey, today I want to watch a
thriller and browse through the all thrillers you have is wonderful.

Ability to tag movies is needed so I can add custom filtering if needed.
For example, all I movies I watched last year.

I would want to add some notes if necessary. For example,  This movie
was recommended to me by Kushal. Related but slightly different, Ability
to mark as a movie as watched, loaned, recommended etc.

I like that idea of pushing out features into plugins. I am looking
forward to trying out this software.

Rahul