I’ve been creating automatic documentation for the Entertainer project using Doxygen.
As you may know, Entertainer is written in python, so what follows is a short guide to commenting python code in a format that Doxygen will pick up.

Lauri has written a comprehensive review of the recent work on Entertainer and the work done so far on it. I especially like the new effects for viewing albums covers that he has written recently (see the example above).

As well as continuing coding the rss feed support, I’ve added Entertainer to several project trackers including ohloh.net and cia.vc

I’m going to be working on cleaning up the rss feed code and documentation this and I’ll hopefully finish it in time for the coding sprint in early March.

We had a coding sprint on the Entertainer project over the weekend.

We got the video thumbnailer working and I’ve added liferea support to the feed viewer.

Take a look at the project at http://code.google.com/p/entertainer-media-center/

I was recently generating some documentation from the Entertainer source code and decided to share how I managed to do it.

I’m assuming python 2.4 is installed on your system.

First install doxygen and graphviz

Just committed a patch to the entertainer svn.

patch18012008.diff

I’ve just joined the Entertainer Project  over on Launchpad.

From the website:

“Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for Gnome and XFce desktop environments. Entertainer is written completely in Python using object-oriented programming paradigm. It uses GStreamer multimedia framework for multimedia playback. User Interface is implemented with Clutter UI-library, which allows sleek OpenGL animated user interfaces. Entertainer also uses other great projects like SQLite, pyIMDBb and iNotify.

The ultimate goal of the project is to create the best media center solution available for any platform. This means that Entertainer should be the best looking, most easy to use and most feature filled media center solution available. Not the easiest goal to achieve. It’s a long way, but we have a good start here!”

My first job is to add opml import capability to the rss feed reader and allow the option to sync with liferea. I’ll be checking out any bugs relating to this as well.