MediaPortal turns your PC and TV into a very advanced home media center. Our software allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio stations; watch and store your videos and DVDs; view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder; and much, much more. MediaPortal is open source software. This means you can help develop MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovative plugins from our great community.
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Our developer Dukus is currently reworking the MediaPortal
Extensions Installer (MPEI) for the upcoming MediaPortal 1.1.0 release.
The reason for this rework is simple. The MPEI (a fast and very easy way to install skins, plugins and other extensions) is simply not used by the majority of community skin designers and plugin developers.
Now
Dukus is recreating MPEI from scratch to make it more powerful and flexible. This will allow everyone
to create even "complex" installation packages with ease.
But to achieve that he needs your comments and feedback.
If you want to help, then please have a look the new thread in our forums which Dukus created.
We are working hard to finish the first Release Candidate of MediaPortal 1.1.0.
Sadly we were not able to make it for our target release date in October, because there are currently a few major issues left, which turned out to be much harder to solve than expected (see roadmaps for details).
As soon as these problems are resolved, we will release MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC1.
With a feature freeze starting on the 1st of October,
MediaPortal 1.1.0 will enter the final stage of development.
Starting with that date, the team will stop adding new features to the code and focus on fixing yet unresolved, non risky bugs.
For October we plan to publish a first release candidate,
the final release of 1.1.0 is still targeted for December 2009.
A new Skineditor
For a few weeks NoBugS, a member of our community, has been working on a new SkinEditor for MediaPortal 1. Although his application is in an early stage of development, it already looks very promising.
What he needs is the feedback of our Community Developers, so that he can provide them with the tool they need.
Over the years problems came up with the SVN performance offered by SourceForge. Especially when hunting bugs and jumping around various fileversions and diffs.
Therefore the team decided to set up an own SVN server.
This step does not mean that we will abandon SourceForge completely as we will still keep your source code as a backup there. The source code on our team's SVN server will be manually synced with SourceForge every month.
Since it is crucial for our community plugin and skin developers, and those of you who provide us with great patches, to always have access to the latest sources, we now opened read-access for everyone to our team's SVN server.
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