Development

Developer and Skinner Documentation

• MediaPortal 2 Developer's System Documentation - Developer's information about the MediaPortal 2 code, giving descriptions about the core, best practises, etc. Also skinning information is available here.

Roadmap and Development Progress

The project schedules and milestones can be viewed in Mantis. Hint: The roadmap in Mantis is not maintained yet. It will become more important after the first beta release of MediaPortal 2.

• MediaPortal 2 roadmap

Development tasks

For tracking development tasks (such as TODOs), we use Mantis. For discussion about open items, we use our forums. During the main development, not all open tasks are in Mantis. This is due to missing structuring functionality. Open tasks can be named in several abstraction levels; to have a complete picture of all tasks to be done, we would need to draw a hierarchy of open points. Currently, the upper-level hierarchy entries, such as "development of TV Engine part" are not added to Mantis.

• Mantis - Tracking open development tasks
• Development Forum - Discussions about new features to be added
• Team meetings forum (only open for Team developers) - Discussions about project schedulings

Guidelines

Here you can find some links to guideline documents. Some of them are quite are written for MediaPortal 1. They are marked with (MP 1). Most of the points in those MP 1 documents still fit for MP 2, but might be changed.

Some of those documents have been adapted or rewritten for MediaPortal 2. Those documents are marked with (up-to-date). The new documents reflect the current guidelines and should be observed.

• (up-to-date) Documentation Standards - Guidelines on the way of documenting code.
• (MP 1) Coding Standards - Guidelines about code layout
• (MP 1) Avoiding Statics
• (MP 1) Tester's Guide - Guidelines for testing and examples.
• (MP 1) Patch Policy - How patches should look and be submitted.

Compiling and Debugging

• Compiling MediaPortal 2 - Instructions on how to compile the MediaPortal 2 source code.
• Debugging MediaPortal 2 - Instructions on how to run a debug build of MediaPortal 2.
• IRC commands (Team members only) - Building a runnable version of MP 2 via the IRC build command 

Tester's resources

• Testing MediaPortal 2 - Instructions on how to test the MediaPortal 2 application.

Subversion (SVN)

- deprecated -

Subversion (SVN) is a tool which allows development teams to safely coordinate and track source code changes. It helps large project development by merging code changes from various developers. Without SVN it is easily possible to overwrite other people's changes and one would be unable to restore previous versions of code if necessary.

• Introduction talk to SVN
• How to get the MediaPortal source code from Subversion.
• Browse the Subversion repository.
• SVN Layout

Git

We're currently preparing to move to the Git version control system. There is no public repository yet but we'll update this page as soon as we have one available. In the meantime, you can learn about Git:

• ProGit - Online introduction/manual to Git

Source code documentation

The MediaPortal 2 source code documentation (generated by doxygen) is available at http://src-doc.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal_2/

The sourcecode documentation can be rebuilt by using an IRC command. (Team members only)

Related Topics

• MediaPortal Bugtracker - View issues and bugs for MediaPortal and the base plugins. Please note that only the Test Team (Reporters) when confirmed by others and developers may enter new bug reports.