Bug#412437: ITP: songbird -- desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser

[Erik <qrcyen@gmail.com>]

Adrian,
I need to correct some sentences, right here.



you said "They are dropping the official support for Linux in future."

R:No, it isn't definitive, and they can turn back. They was thinking to do the same strategy from Google when they created the google chrome (first they build a google chrome for windows, second for mac and for third for Linux)

Debian don't need to do a Songbird's Fork
Fork is unnecessary.

They will keep the Linux version.

Now they need a place with many developers to contribute with the project.

Debian and Ubuntu are best place for it, and we need approve it...


look what they have said:

UPDATED 4/5/2010 @ 2:22 pm PST

To those who voiced their disappointment and retained a civil tone, we
empathize with you. We appreciate all of the passion from the community, we again want to re-iterate that this was a very tough decision for us. We want to clarify a couple of points:

• Songbird remains open source. The code is mirrored from our working tree and available at http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/
• We are maintaining our Linux build infrastructure and will ensure that it continues to compile and run the unit-test suite. http://buildbot.songbirdnest.com/
• Nightly Linux builds will remain available at http://developer.songbirdnest.com/builds/trunk/latest/
• We have in house developers that use Linux every day and they will keep developing Songbird on Linux.

URL: http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2010/04/02/songbird-singing-a-new-tune/