[Adium-devl] My status, and some 1.4 planning

[Colin Barrett]

On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> I've given this some thought... we're not doing our many users any  
> favors by holding back on advancement to maintain 10.4  
> compatibility, but more importantly, we're not doing ourselves any,  
> either.  If moving to 10.5+ would make development faster, more  
> enjoyable, and a better learning experience, we should make the  
> jump.  I think that if we do so we should keep our 10.4 users in  
> mind on the Adium 1.3.x branch, backporting key improvements which  
> don't require massive rewrites to work there, such as a future  
> MSNp15 switch.  What do y'all think?

I agree. I think we should be conservative about small changes and bug  
fixes, since the more churn the more chance there will be a  
regression. However I think the MSNp15 switch, for example, should  
definitely be backported.

Here's a some food for thought:

Let's call our Leopard-only version of Adium 2.0. We can have 1.3 be  
small changes and fixes. When/if we switch to MSNp15, call that  
release 1.4.

A change in minimum system requirements is as good a reason as any to  
up the major version number.

-Colin