[GSoC] Mission Accomplished

Hi folks. Sorry for too many weeks without any post about the project. During this period, I have been changing and arguing things related to the service source code and to the user design. Also, there was a lot of optimizations and bug fixes. Nevertheless, to the joy of all, I'm here to announce that gpodder.net features are now successfully integrated with Amarok.

Added features:

• Podcast subscription synchronisation.
• Podcast status synchronisation.
• Browse through podcasts suggested by gpodder.net.
• Browse through gpodder.net top recommended podcasts.

The difficulties:

• Even though I had studied many things about Qt, there will be always some weird problem due to a lack of some specific knowledge.
• Lots of bugs with no appropriate way to search for the root of the problem (Challenge accepted \o/).

The future:

• Get users feedback, in order to fix bugs and so on.
• Keep tracking mygpo and libmygpo-qt evolution, so as to analyse what new features could be implemented in gpodder service.
• Keep contributing with Amarok team. Fixing bugs and adding new features.

So, my proposal objectives were fulfilled and I'm happy to give something back to the KDE community, since I have been literally "experiencing freedom" for so many years without any active role in KDE ecosystem. Besides that, the most valuable thing that I learned is that software development is not just about code. As a FOSS supporter, I already thought about it in the past, but there are a lot of things that you can only understand when you face it yourself.

At last, I really have to say that this whole experience has been one that I will carry with me for my whole life. So, I will keep contributing with Amarok, thereby further developing my hacking/coding/social skills and making great code for all users (Or, at least, I hope so ^^).

With all that said, I also want to give thanks to google for all the support to FOSS communities, to KDE people for the great desktop environment, to mygpo and libmygpo-qt team for the gpodder stuff, and to Bart Cernnels, my mentor, for the patience during the last three months.