GSoC Status Update – Week 9

19 Aug 2013

This is a status update for my Google Summer of Code 2013 project - implementing advanced statistics importers for Amarok. Please read the first post if you would like to know more about the project.

Last week was free of surprises. I applied some more polish to both the Importers framework and concrete importers themselves, deduplicated some code - just general maintenance. I had a very technical to-do list containing - mostly - very minor entries, so it's nothing write about in the post. The bottom line is: the overall quality of my project is improving.<

The list keeps gaining new entries, so hopefully I'll still be having plenty to do.

One thing that continues to give me a bit of trouble is Amarok 2.x embedded database importer. There are surprisingly many problems with managing a single server process, shared between method calls, in a multithreaded environment. QProcess class has its own set of quirks on top of that which need to be taken into account, especially when it comes to destroying the object, particularly in multithreaded environment. I've got ideas, but it's something for the next post.

In other news: Banshee importer!

Alright, that's me done for the post. It's been a short one, but as I said - no major problems, no major changes. A steady march to high quality.

As always, you can check out my progress on my public Amarok clone. The branch is named gsoc-importers.

Thanks for reading!