[Adium-devl] 1.4a1 planning

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Zachary West wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 15:01, Jordan <jas8522 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Regardless of 1.3.4 happening or not, I think Eric is right about
>> using the nightlies as 'alphas'.
>
> Update libpurple, throw in the localization fixes—that is 1.3's
> legacy. Just like our 10.2 users, we've got to say "enough is enough,
> you're using an older OS, use older software." 10.5 is being adopted
> faster than 10.3+ ever was, anyway. This is yet another reason why it
> should come after 1.4; it's just a maintenance release.
>
> The expectation or plan that 1.3.x would be maintained like 1.4 is
> being developed was a pipedream; I just don't see the developer muscle
> to maintain two separate, and nearly independent (due to massive code
> changes in 1.4) code bases at once. Especially given how few people
> are actively developing right now.
>

I agree with Zac 100%.  Pretending to maintain a codebase nobody on  
the development is using, porting fixes which required manual changes  
and merging to work, would be doing nobody any favors - least of all  
this small band of intrepid coders.

> I think we should completely drop 1.3.x after 1.3.4, and it should
> really only contain minor changes anyway. None of this backporting
> fixes (even critical crashes that are fixed in 1.4).

Exactly.  Also, version control is forever; we can always come back to  
1.3.x to update libpurple 6 months from now if a service breaks  
terribly, for example.

Cheers,
Evan
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