I want some Songbird news!

that's understandable ;) also it's good to check developer's personals blogs for more information :)

If you're a little into technical aspects and points of view, our Roadmap, is a good resource for "news", too!! There you can always follow status changes on the next release.

Yes - did that. But this is not just about me. You gotta show love to the community-at-large out there. Keep their mouths watering, as it were. Make sure your fanboys are well fed. Help out people who told their boss that there's this great new software that plays the web, makes coffee and eats iTunes for breakfast and the exact feature he needs will be in the next release which comes out - when?

And in this respect nothing works as well as a little 'inside scoop'. A sense of "er, no we haven't died"! Guys, you just released 1.0. And then what - silence?! ;-) Of course you're completely focused on coding and improving all that stuff that just didn't make it into 1.0, but just don't focus too much. You'll still want people to download the next iteration of your opus.

So, I've really pushed my point now :) Anyways I'm sure Hendrix will rock. He was born for that now, wasn't he?

[german accent] peace out! [/german accent]
/marc

I agree totally with Marc's comment above. According to my google reader there are over 2000 people subscribed to the songbird blog yet it only posts on average 0.5 items per week (and i expect that comes in bursts).

I fortunately read the wiki but i bet not many of those 2000+ people do so they wouldn't know that the roadmap was greatly updated just the other day. A blog post would be nice. As Marc said "You gotta show love to the community-at-large out there. Keep their mouths watering, as it were."

Songbird rocks - let the readers know.
Rob

Thanks for letting us know about the roadmap update, Rob. It looks like they might not have finished it yet since there isn't a lot of information about the latter releases, so maybe they will make a blog post about it when it is completed. And as for the discussion about Songbird news (which is old but still relevant), I would like to hear more from the team as well. I wish they could make a blog post every few weeks or so where they let everyone know what they are working on, what important bugs they are fixing, what GetSatisfaction topics they think are interesting and would like to see more discussion about, things like that. I love the employees who frequently post here, but it can feel like we don't get to interact with the people actually creating the program as much. At least it is because they are so busy coding it.

I really like the about:mozilla newsletter that sends out updates about Mozilla products every few weeks. Maybe the GetSatisfaction community and a few of the employees could work together to produce an update every two weeks or so compiling news about the program's development, new add-ons, and ideas from GetSatisfaction, and send them out to a mailing list or make a blog post about it.

Hehe, I hope we called you out on your shit in a friendly manner. Thanks for putting this together, Laura.

Two blog posts! Thanks guyyyysss!

Also - Am I the only one who didn't realise that the release names were alphabetical? I feel really stupid now...

Right! Check this:

http://gsfn.us/t/5ndz

I want to know your A-Z of what artists songbird releases should be named after...go go go!!