[Adium-devl] GSoC 2007 student branches

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On May 29, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>
> On May 29, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> Any last-minute objections to me branching for 1.1? If not, I'll  
>> do it this afternoon.
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> Speaking of the fate of branches: We should also discuss 10.3 and  
> pre-1.1 support releases; we could, for example, do a very simple  
> release simply bumping up to use of libpurple 2.0.1 which was  
> released last week.  Given the number of bugs which get fixed with  
> each release and the advantages of knowing the our libpurple  
> framework matches the current release (for coordinating bug reports  
> and coding efforts), a policy of following libpurple releases where  
> possible could make good sense.  Thoughts?
>
> -Evan
>


	Opinion from a non Adium developer who's been too busy lately to  
keep a closer eye on Adium things (sorry Chris! ;-), but nevertheless  
one who's seen and tested every single releases in the 1.0x  
timeframe, even alphas and betas, I think this is a good idea.... but  
only in theory. The 1.0.4 release has proved pretty stable lately and  
it's been stated that it's meant to be the last one with Panther  
support (or at least that's what I understood). Changing in any way  
such a core part of Adium as libpurple for 10.3 users inevitably  
means a new Q&A cycle that could easily extend beyond "a simple  
release", from experience seen on this very list.

	It is my opinion that 10.3 support is left in peace as it currently  
is with a pretty solid 1.0.4 Adium release, and not risk having to do  
1.0.6 'cause something unexpected might break in 1.0.5 (*cough*  
anyone remember 1.0.3? *cough*), given the relative weight of  
libpurple within Adium.

	Just my opinion, in any case! Regards,...


-jmpp

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