Clementine has been forked - and will probably survive as Strawberry

[desputinski]

Hi,
as development for Clementine seems to be stagnating (which is sad), there is a new project as a clone of Clementine on the horizon:
https://github.com/jonaski/strawberry

best regards
desputin

[sylvainsab]

I confirm this. I reckon qualified people who would like to help this music player to survive should help and join the continued up-to-date project.

[ErebosGR]

But Strawberry doesn't have an Android remote app, does it?
That's the only reason I use Clementine.

[sylvainsab]

I remember something along those lines.
I now use KDEconnect.

[trougnouf]

Also lacking dynamic playlist, saving statistics to file, and automatic scoring, so all the features that I use Clementine for.

[sylvainsab]

You can open this as an issue in the "newer" software if you want.

Anyway, I people's choices are theirs, as for me I've never been a fan of "forks", I tend to see them as a main factor in the dissipation of worthwhile efforts... However in that case it's been the work of a single person to take up and carry on the maintenance of software developed by a whole team.

[a17r]

I don't understand why they decided to fork it from a state in 2013.

[gianlucapettinello]

I see that clementine git is updated regularly so no death. Or at least resurrection :)

[desputinski]

Hm, but I wonder why, if a programmer puts time and efforts into clementine nobody is pushing for a new release. That seems a bit strange and uncoordinated...

[a17r]

@desputinski See also https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/3463 for reference.

In absence of a Qt5-based release, distros are forced to either drop Clementine or package a snapshot. At this point, most are probably doing the latter.

[rmpbklyn]

I see that clementine git is updated regularly so no death. Or at least resurrection :)

but the latest release shows 1.3.1, where you see newer?

[JulianVolodia]

Dear Contributors, @jonaski and @hatstand, @hatstand and @jonaski (and all other) what's up? What are your preferences and what are your long term plans for this project if could be said so.

Best!

[hatstand]

Getting Windows, Linux and mac qt5 builds running on CircleCI would put us in a good position to actually have releases again as it removes the burden of manual work involved. I think only windows is blocking that right now but I haven't had time to sort out its issues.

[JulianVolodia]

@hatstand thanks for quick respond!

[rodneyrod]

New version is out, this can be closed.

[JulianVolodia]

Hi @desputinski could you close issue?

[JulianVolodia]

hi @desputinski thanks