Becoming a Contributor

[Erik Kristensen]

Hey Guys,

So I saw an email regarding someone potentially wanting to become a
contributor, which is awesome! So I thought I'd take a few minutes to
outline my very simple and easy guidelines for development.

If you want to be a contributor its pretty simple, download the
source, hack away at the code, when you've added or fixed something
send me the patch for review.

If and when you have proven yourself to me regarding patches,
understanding how the application works, how Boxee works, etc ... I am
more than willing to add you as a contributor to the repository.

If you have any questions or issues, please let me know.

Please don't let this deter you from working on the project!

Also any patches you submit you'll get credit for. ;)

-Erik

[Kevin Doyle]

Awesome Erik!  I browsed through your code earlier and I am impressed that you find enough free time to implement all of this!  I am glad that you have. 

Taking into account your experience developing apps for boxee, what is your opinion on the potential  of developing long running background apps for the boxee box? Pandora already continues to play after you have left the app it seems.

 I think it would be great to leverage all of the openkinect work so far and use hand gestures to interface with my boxee box.  The remote's keyboard is a pain to use in a dark room and the keys are loud when you are laying in bed trying to navigate the gui and your wife has fallen asleep. 

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[Erik Kristensen]

Hey Kevin,

I wish I had more time, I haven't had time to do anything with the
code lately, which is unfortunate because there are several
optimization fixes I need to do for the Boxee Box, but thats for
another email. ;)

Um .. good question, I haven't looked into seeing how the Pandora code
works so I am not sure how they allow it to run in the background,
because usually python based apps are not able to do that. They are
threaded so that when you exit that app anything that was taking place
inside that app stops running.

I love the idea of using openkinect to use hand gestures to control
the boxee, that would be awesome, the issues you are going to run into
is loading the libraries onto the Boxee Box.

Feel free to bounce ideas or questions off of me anytime, I'll do my
best to answer as soon as I can though I may not always have an answer
for you.

-Erik

[Ryan Corder]

Erik Kristensen wrote:
> If you want to be a contributor its pretty simple, download the
> source, hack away at the code, when you've added or fixed something
> send me the patch for review.

I plan on sending you a patch, but not until after the holidays here
in the US. I personally want to start working on Live TV support and
management of the schedule and recordings.

I'm committed to having the BoxeeBox as the only thing hooked up to my
TV, so for personal reasons I *need* these things in the app :)

[Ryan Corder]

Kevin Doyle wrote:
> Taking into account your experience developing apps for boxee, what is
> your opinion on the potential of developing long running background apps
> for the boxee box? Pandora already continues to play after you have left the
> app it seems.

I think this is more related to Pandora just being audio. I noticed
that other apps that do just audio also continue to play in the
background.

[Erik Kristensen]

Ryan,

Awesome.

I am of the same mindset, my BoxeeBox will be the only device
connected to my TV. :)

The only possible way Live TV is achievable is if we can access a file
where the LiveTV is being outputted to via a SMB share at the moment.

If Boxee would add support for us to be able to pass a file handler to
the player, then we could use the MythTV python bindings to stream
using the mythtv protocol.

Management of Schedules and Recordings is definitely doable already, I
just hadn't gotten there yet.

Feel free to contact me anytime.

-Erik