[Adium-devl] [Adium-feedback] Project Support

[Chris Forsythe]

I concur with Colin. Also, sometimes older versions of Adium can cause 
real issues for people. For instance, I'm pretty sure there are bugs in 
our .5x and .6x range of releases that would delete buddy lists at 
random quite easily.

Also, we provide a full archive of our releases on Sourceforge. That 
should be good enough for most people.

Chris

Colin Barrett wrote:

> I think I speak for all of the Adium team in saying that in general, 
> there's no reason to archive older versions, except when we drop 
> compatibility for a particular OS.
>
> When 1.0 comes out, I think it would be alright to put 0.89.1 up 
> there, and when 1.1 comes out, it would be alright to put the last 
> 1.0.x version up there. But in general, we would prefer if people used 
> the latest version if at all possible. The main reason we ask this is 
> that we are all volunteers, and having to support older versions adds 
> quite a bit of time. Often times, when people file a bug, it has been 
> fixed in a newer version.
>
> Things might be different if we had a paid support staff, but we don't 
> -- we all volunteer and work on Adium in our free time.
>
> Thanks for the offer though, we greatly appreciate it.
>
> -Colin
>
> p.s. I've cc'd this reply to our development list. If anyone else 
> there wants to chime in, feel free.
>
> On Aug 23, 2006, at 7:44 PM, GhostSHadoW wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am Ghostshadow,  I have started a project for Mac users.
>> It's called Mac OS X Archive, www.macosxarchive.com 
>> <http://www.macosxarchive.com>  
>>
>> It's an online archive reference for older versions of applications.
>>  I am contacting you for your permission to add your applications to 
>> the list.
>>
>> The lists would look something like this example of my application, 
>> Image Resize.
>> http://ghostknox.com/wordpress/?p=8
>>
>> There would be a screen shot of the application, brief description, 
>> developer information, version history, with possible download link, 
>> (hosted by us), the application web page.
>> All of your rights are still intact, this is just to have for a 
>> reference.
>>
>> It's going to be allot like www.coolosxapps.net 
>> <http://www.coolosxapps.net>, or version tracker. except this is an 
>> archive.  So it could be compared to a windows site called 
>> www.oldversion.com <http://www.oldversion.com>, we are not affiliated 
>> with them.
>>
>> Please let me know if you're interested in allowing us to contribute 
>> your applications to the list.  Were trying to get this project under 
>> way.  It's all for non profit.
>> Were trying to give back to the community.
>>
>>
>> Thanks a ton!
>>
>> ghostshadow.
>>
>> -- 
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>> www.ghostknox.com <http://www.ghostknox.com>
>>
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