This has long been one of my goals to contribute in a meaningful way to an open source project. I think I may have found the project for me: Juice Podcatcher
I use the Juice Podcatcher to download fresh Podcasts every morning that I play on my “alarm clock.” Juice is great, but I think it could use a few more features.
One of the main features that I think it could use is a Service mode – where it runs solely as a windows service. Currently it doesn’t support this, which necessitates me to keep one of my SFF Server logged on all the time just so it can run. That’s not cool. That poor little machine could be using is valuable clock cycles to do something important, not just keep the desktop session churning away. This will be my first fix/addition.
I have never participated in any kind of open source project like this, so this will be a chronicle of my journey.
I know there are going to be some issues. For one, it’s written in Python. I haven't the first clue about Python. But how hard could it be?
The Second issue I see is that this is a fairly widely used program. They’re homepage touts 2,500,000 downloads. I’m not sure that whoever “owns” it i going to be two happy with me mucking around in they’re code and adding features. But I guess we’ll see. I’ll post some more details when I get up an running.
