Christian, This case was approved during ARC business today.
Thanks, John On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 12:13, John Fischer wrote: > LSARC, > > I am sponsoring this fast track for Christian Kelly of the > Gnome team in Dublin, Ireland. I have set the timer for > Thursday, February 28, 2008. The case directory contains > this proposal. > > This project proposes to integrate the id3lib Open Source > project into a Minor release of Solaris. id3lib is a library > for handling ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags added to digital media files. > The ID3 tagging standard is independent of the media format of > the file that they are applied to, they are merely appended or > pre-pended to the file. > > Thanks, > > John > > ______________________________________________________________________ > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > id3lib > > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Christian Kelly > > 1.3. Date of This Document: > 02/04/08 > > 1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s): > 1.4.1. The Community you expect to review your project: > 1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project: > LSARC > 1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project: > robert.odea at sun.com > 1.4.4. The name of your business unit: > OPG/OpenSource > > 1.5. Email Aliases: > 1.5.1. Responsible Manager: > Tom.Garland at Sun.Com > 1.5.2. Responsible Engineer: > Christian.Kelly at Sun.Com > 1.5.3. Marketing Manager: > dan.roberts at sun.com > 1.5.4. Interest List: > jds-dev at sun.com > > 4. Technical Description: > 4.1. Details: > id3lib is a library for handling ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags added > to digital media files. While the format allows for tagging > any media format, it is used exclusively with MP3s. The tags > hold information about the file such as artist, title, year > of production, etc.. > > The ID3 tagging standard is independent of the media format > of the file that they are applied to, they are merely appended > or pre-pended to the file. > > This proposal adds version 3.8.3, the latest stable release. > > Use of the ID3v1 standard has dwindled due to the fact that it > is now twelve years old and the obvious limitations compared > to ID3v2 - e.g. fixed length fields of thirty characters. The > last revision of the ID3v2 standard was eight years ago and > the last release of id3lib itself is almost 5 years old. Also, > the ID3v2 standard allows for adding tag fields in a backwards > compatible way. For these reasons, it is unlikely we will see > compatibility breaks in the API. > > 4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s): > None > > 4.3. In Scope: > See Above > > 4.4. Out of Scope: > See Above > > 4.5. Interfaces: > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Exported Stability Comments > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > SUNWid3lib Uncommitted Package name > libid3.so Uncommitted C library > id3info Uncommitted CLI, > installed > in /usr/bin > id3convert Uncommitted CLI, > installed > in > /usr/bin > id3tag Uncommitted CLI, > installed > in /usr/bin > id3cp Uncommitted CLI, > installed > in /usr/bin > /usr/include/id3 Project Private *NEW* Folder > used for > private > include > files > id3.h Uncommitted installed in > > /usr/include > > 4.6 Doc Impact: > None. > > 4.7 Admin/Config Impact: > None. > > 4.8 HA Impact: > None. > > 4.9. I18N/L10N Impact: > The JDS team and the G11N are working together to evaluation and > provide I18N/L10N support. > > 4.10. Packaging & Delivery: > Adds new package: SUNWid3lib > > 5. Reference Documents: > id3lib website : http://id3lib.sf.net > ID3v1, brief description of format : > http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/id3/id3v1.html > ID3v2.4.0 Informal Standard : > http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/id3/id3v2.4.0-structure.txt
