Peapod, ebuild, FLOSS community rocks!

The evil way Amarok handles podcasts has been bugging me for a while. So I decided to try out a program called peapod that Tsuroerusu told me about. In short it rocks! It supports every podcast or videocast feed I throw at it. Its not as nice as a GUI app but right now there doesn't seem to be many good podcast receivers except for maybe kitty although that wouldn't compile. Peapod has saved me a bunch of time and effort and I liked it so much I decided to make an ebuild for it. Sometime when I was making it I needed help, so I went to the #gentoo-dev-help channel on Freenode. Not only did they help me with that, they started going through the whole thing and finding just about every thing that could cause an error or was non-standard. These guys definitely knew their stuff and were able to give me 10 to 20 things that would make it better. After going through that I was very happy with it so I decided to put it in the Sunrise overlay. I went through the required steps which included some even more finetuning of the ebuild and quality assurance stuff then had to register a name and give them some info on me so they could contact me if they need to. So there you have it, I am now an official unofficial ebuild developer. It is now added but awaiting it to be pushed into the reviewed directory so everyone can check it out.

Review: Peapod rocks! Gentoo rocks! and the open source community rocks!