[Adium-devl] Adium 1.0b10

[Colin Barrett]

You are 100% right, the betas have horrible s2n but they have even  
worse us2n (unique signal to noise). Basically, lotsa people sayin'  
"me too" like some braindead AOLer, to quote Weird Al.

Perhaps we should think about a closed beta program with much more  
limited distribution -- note that the number of participants would  
limited. Perhaps only X downloads of the beta for each version, with  
the number steadily increasing for each beta we release? Or maybe a  
sign-up system, which could be integrated into trac (in my dreams,  
hehe). That way we could actually monitor who was filing bug reports  
and tickets, who was being helpful, and who was not. Again, though,  
the fact that anyone can just build from source themself makes all of  
the above a bit silly. Dang, if only Adium were shareware! ;)

In b9's defense though, it works a hell of a lot better than b8 did;  
it actually can maintain a connection to AIM.

I think the only real solution to our beta woes is to just buckle down  
and start busting our asses. Perhaps after putting the finishing  
touches on our how-to-contribute infrastructre of pages (it's a tad  
disorganized), I could post a plea on the blog and try and get that  
posted on digg -- they seem to love us there, so who knows, maybe  
we'll actually be able to get a little bit of help. Although I think  
it is a pretty long shot -- my opinion of Digg and its users is no  
secret (hint: I didn't write the line on the beta page that says digg  
is awesome. :P).

-Colin