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== Test/Demo Plan == == Test Plan ==
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It's important that we are able to test new features, and demonstrate them to users. Use this section to describe a short plan that anybody can follow that demonstrates the feature is working. This can then be used during testing, and to show off after release. Please add an entry to http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Coverage/NewFeatures for tracking test coverage.

This need not be added or completed until the specification is nearing beta.		 The most commonly used feature should be tested and confirmed to be working correctly

Summary

The specification describe the selection of media player applications that will be used for karmic

Release Note

This section should include a paragraph describing the end-user impact of this change. It is meant to be included in the release notes of the first release in which it is implemented. (Not all of these will actually be included in the release notes, at the release manager's discretion; but writing them is a useful exercise.)

It is mandatory.

Rationale

There is lot of applications around and it's good to revisite our choices and selection to see if it still serves our users in the best way

User stories

  • Martin connects his new G1 phone to his laptop running karmic and he got asked if he wants to sync his music collection between the phone and the computer, he acknowledge the action and a few minutes later all his songs are available on his phone ready to be listened

Design

  • Having a small video player is useful, totem will still be used for that
  • Rhythmbox and banshee are both good players but banshee has people working full time on it, is moving faster and has feature users expect from a modern music playing applications which rhythmbox doesn't have yet
  • Karmic will switch to banshee if the issues which have been listed during the discussion are fixed before the feature freeze, otherwise we will revisit the decision next cycle

Implementation

The following feature have to be confirmed in banshee before switching:

  • working accissibility (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533030)

  • support for magnatune
  • use the current GNOME libraries (gtkbuilder, gio, etc)
  • the rhythmbox importer has to work correctly
  • the close and exit behaviour has to be changed to be consistent with the current rhythmbox behaviour or be an option

Those options would be nice to have:

  • library watching
  • crossfading effect
  • jamendo

Migration

Banshee 1.5 can import rhythmbox datas (music collection, songs rating, etc)

Test Plan

The most commonly used feature should be tested and confirmed to be working correctly

CategorySpec

DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/DefaultMediaPlayerChoice (last edited 2009-09-18 01:19:03 by 193)