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Ancient history of XMMS2. See History/Prehistory for even more ancient history, tracing back to XMMS2's spiritual ancestry.

2002

(Late 2002)

Tobias Rundström and Peter Alm talk about making a "kickass player" during a boring day at work. The idea is to build a C++ project as a library which could be embedded into different clients.

2003

January

28th:

Initial code repository created. (BK/Git history goes back to this date)

April

18th:

Anders makes his first changeset, adding a SID plugin.

26th:

XMMS2 switches to using DBUS IPC - now split into a client and a server.

June

20th:

Python client bindings added.

July

7th:

Daniel Svensson makes his first contribution: "alsa output plugin, first miserable version... order a life insurance before testing."

21st:

Anders adds an SDL visualisation client.

22nd:

XMMS2 starts switching to using SCons for building. (Done by 24th)

2004

February

20th:

Tilman Sauerbeck contributes his first patch: "Make -o to xmms2d work again ..."

24th:

Tilman adds ecore xmms2 client bindings.

April

19th:

Michael Lindgren cleans up the Vorbis plugin.

July

21st:

Chris Morgan contributes a JACK output plugin.

August

18th:

Ruby client bindings added.

September

7th:

Sham Chukoury contributes a documentation patch.

22nd:

XMMS2 switches to socket IPC (UNIX & TCP). (TCP socket support isn't completed until late November)

October

20th:

Kristian Benoit fixes shuffling.

2005

January

14th:

Christopher Rosell adds FreeBSD support for the CDAE plugin.

April

17th:

Alexander Botero-Lowry fixes a strange buildflag in the xmmsclient SConscript.

24th:

Dismantled agrees to offer a clip as an intro/demo song for XMMS2.

28th:

Jens Taprogge fixes Debian package-building configuration and starts maintaining XMMS2 Debian packages.

May

20th:

XMMS2 Developer Release 1 is done.

21st:

XMMS2 moves from BitKeeper to Git. (takes a few days)

26th:

LWN publishes an introductory article about XMMS2 in its 'Development' section.

June

1st:

XMMS2 Developer Release 1.1 is done - mostly a bugfix release after DR1.

July

19th

Dan Chokola's first accepted patch (fixing formatting bugs in the CLI client) makes it into the codebase.

August

4th:

Developer Release 2 is done. Exactly one day later, we fix 2 critical bugs.

19th:

Developer Release 2.1 is done, fixing a few bugs found in DR2.

September

7th:

Developer Release 2.2 is done, fixing bugs found in DR2.1.

December

18th:

DrAlban is done, adding a number of features, bug fixes and some client API changes.

21st:

Planet XMMS2 goes live.

2006

January

13th:

DrBombay is released, fixing some annoying bugs in DrAlban.

February

21st:

DrCox is released, fixing even more annoying bugs in DrBombay, including a fairly serious SQLite issue. DrCox also introduces a new mixer API.

March

27th:

DrDolittle is released, with yet more minor feature additions and bug fixes. A new Roadmap is also announced, to track future release targets.

 DrDolittle, released 13:37 on the 27th March            (if you live in Mexico City or similar ;D)

April

27th:

XMMS2 is accepted as a mentoring organisation in Google's Summer of Code program. Approximately 50 project proposals are submitted to XMMS2.

May

23rd:

Five students are accepted to work on XMMS2 as part of Google's Summer of Code 2006:

  • Collections
    • Student: Sébastien Cevey
    • Mentor: Anders Gustafsson

July

6th:

DrEvil is released, introducing a major change with the reworking of xmms2d's internals into Transforms, as well as other bug fixes.

15th:

DrFeelgood is released, with the shortest release cycle yet! This release simply targets a few bugs found soon after the release of DrEvil.

September

The wiki gets a serious overhaul.

26th:

DrGonzo is mysteriously released.

November

20th:

The first ever XMMS2 IRC Meeting is held.

December

2nd:

DrHouse is conjured.

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