Adium 1.4b18/1.3.11?

[Robert Vehse]

Am 24.04.2010 um 02:41 schrieb Christopher Forsythe:

> I think what needs to happen first is to identify what can be moved  
> out of the 1.4 milestone. So, if someone could do that, that's  
> probably the best thing to do first.
>
> So, answer this question:
>
> What would cause problems if 1.4 was released today? As in, must  
> release 1.4.1 or else! type of problems.
>
> In other words, what on this list can go?
>
> http://trac.adium.im/query?status=assigned&status=new&group=severity&milestone=Adium+1.4
>
>
> Chris

Excuse me, Chris but I don't like the direction of this. Many, many  
tickets have already been dropped. This is just 15 of the more severe  
issues that have survived.

On the other hand, I would guess there's a few nasty bugs  
(regressions) out there, a) in tickets that have not been triaged and  
moved to the 1.4 milestone yet (see below) and b) that have not been  
filed so far.

I personally have noticed that some bits in the contact list are  
behaving wonky. For instance, deleting contacts seems to work  
unreliably – which is a regression from 1.4 – and there's a few things  
with combined contacts that confuse me and which I have yet to get my  
head around. I have refrained from filing tickets on issues like this  
for fear of increasing the psychological barrier for the developers to  
get at 1.4 (which you kind of mentioned implicitly).

This query (http://trac.adium.im/query?status=assigned&status=new&col=id&col=summary&col=version&col=milestone&col=status&col=type&col=component&group=version&order=component&version=1.4b17&version=1.4b16&version=1.4b15&version=1.4b14&version=1.4b13&version=1.4b12&version=1.4b11&version=1.4b10&version=1.4b9&version=1.4b8&version=1.4b7&version=1.4b6&version=1.4b5&version=1.4b4&version=1.4b3&version=1.4b2&version=1.4b1&version=1.4hg&milestone= 
) lists 105 tickets for 1.4 which have not been triaged yet. Once  
steps I made towards b18 I and perhaps Jordan might be feel motivated  
enough to engage them.

In a nutshell: of course we wouldn't want to waste time on minor  
issues keeping us from releasing 1.4 but I think we're at a point  
where the risk of such an situation is a lot smaller than the risk of  
releasing a major new release lacking polish and instead featuring  
nasty regressions – and which I fear would cause the Adium Project to  
appear in a bad light. Nobody wants that, right?

I'm confident that with Evan's free time and guys like Colin and Alan  
stepping in we can release a version 1.4 of Adium we can all be proud  
of.

Regards,
Robby
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