Farewell Songbird, We Hardly Knew Ye

“It’s very important to understand exactly what the development
team behind Songbird are going to do. Let’s take a look at the
announcement:

“”Some of you have noticed that the Linux version has fallen
behind, leading to some heated, but healthy debate internally about
how to prioritize the development hopper. After careful
consideration, we’ve come to the painful conclusion that we should
discontinue support for the Linux version of Songbird.

“”We will maintain a version of the software for use by our
Songbird engineers who develop on the Linux platform. We’ll make
that version available to the community. We will keep Linux build
bots and host the Linux builds on the developer wiki. That said,
those builds will not be tested and may not pick up new features
developed by Songbird’s team.”

“So essentially, the team will continue to create automated
builds of it, but they won’t be tested, won’t be fixed and won’t be
improved. In other words, Songbird for Linux is being killed
off.”

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