The May Entertainer sprint was this weekend. It was good push where some of the developers hadn't been going at full steam recently. After being featured on Linux.com, Entertainer saw another large surge of users. Coincidentally, we had also just moved back to Launchpad.

Michael Charclo, a new developer, was the star of the weekend. He got four branches merged to trunk, fixing three bugs that were generally a pain, and added some basic heuristics for Entertainer to discover movie files as TV episodes and catalog them accordingly. This is a rather big win for us, since we had been discussing ways of identifying a movie file as a TV episode, and many of the solutions just didn't seem to work. Michael's did, and I was happy to merge his branch.

Matt and I worked on the new backend stuff. It's encouraging to see how close we are, but where the code stands now is the hardest part. It's the last 5% that will take the longest part of the time. Since we're using storm to assist us in making the code clearer and more modular, our life has become so much easier. However, Matt and I together made a significant amount of progress.

Joshua got his branch merged in that makes the gnome tray icon usable again, and removed the backend dependency on X so that it can now run without the requirement of having a DISPLAY environment variable (previously, it imported gtk for the tray icon).

Entertainer is planning it's 0.1 release for early June, so we'll be buckling down and getting a lot of the bugs taken care of and getting the code stable and ready to be deployed.