- December 6, 2004
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After having felt kind-of-sick lately I'm finally starting to get better again and I should have more time in the near future, at least thats the hope. With that in mind, a couple of things should/could get attention, this is besides a few bugfixes for smaller issues that will get done first.
- Focus on Bugfixes and Code Cleanup exlusivley and add/change NO features whatsoever
With this it'll probably get boring but would hopefully allow for any and all the bugs to be squeezed along with better maintanability in the long run
- Focus on performance overall
Try to improve image loading (which is by far the biggest slowdown inside MP with this plugin), use smart caching to limit the amount of db acess, try to get MediaInfo parsing faster, etc. There is not much I can promise here, but I can try.
- Implement the new API from the guys at thetvdb.com
After many months of work, the new API is now online, this would allow for vastly faster imports and less bandwidth used. Note that in the medium-run this will be inevitable anyways.
- Get all the "extras" such as torrent/subtitle/newsbin loaded only if desired explicitly via a plugin-system
Personally I feel that 80+% of the users of this plugin don't use those features, but they sure are nice for those that do. This would allow those users to disable those plugins (less bloat overall and keeps the code-size of the core-plugin down - again better maintainability)
- New Features
Miss something? Have an idea? Please post it? For instance upcoming episode alerts, custom view support (not that hackish way), full details popup (show all fields inside MP regardless of what you selected inside config via the context-menu), playlist support (play all from season, etc.), etc.
- Documentation
I have asked multiple times our users to take over this job, but since nobody wants to do this, I'm inclined to just do this myself. This is my personal choice for this vote.
- Focus on Bugfixes and Code Cleanup exlusivley and add/change NO features whatsoever
With this it'll probably get boring but would hopefully allow for any and all the bugs to be squeezed along with better maintanability in the long run
- Focus on performance overall
Try to improve image loading (which is by far the biggest slowdown inside MP with this plugin), use smart caching to limit the amount of db acess, try to get MediaInfo parsing faster, etc. There is not much I can promise here, but I can try.
- Implement the new API from the guys at thetvdb.com
After many months of work, the new API is now online, this would allow for vastly faster imports and less bandwidth used. Note that in the medium-run this will be inevitable anyways.
- Get all the "extras" such as torrent/subtitle/newsbin loaded only if desired explicitly via a plugin-system
Personally I feel that 80+% of the users of this plugin don't use those features, but they sure are nice for those that do. This would allow those users to disable those plugins (less bloat overall and keeps the code-size of the core-plugin down - again better maintainability)
- New Features
Miss something? Have an idea? Please post it? For instance upcoming episode alerts, custom view support (not that hackish way), full details popup (show all fields inside MP regardless of what you selected inside config via the context-menu), playlist support (play all from season, etc.), etc.
- Documentation
I have asked multiple times our users to take over this job, but since nobody wants to do this, I'm inclined to just do this myself. This is my personal choice for this vote.
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