Adium 1.4b18/1.3.11?

[Zachary West]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:27, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <evan at adium.im> wrote:

>
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Alan Humpherys wrote:
>
> > I must confess to being a complete novice when it comes to integration of
> a new libpurple version into our code base, but seeing the relatively large
> numbers of patches which are necessary to fix security and compatibility
> issues in our existing version, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to pull
> the new version of the library and do both a 1.3.11 and a 1.4B18 release
> with it.  (Of course, I defer to the experts on the wisdom of that path).
>
> Doing a major libpurple version upgrade on the 1.3 branch would be a large
> undertaking; I definitely don't think it's worth doing.  A minimal release
> with the plucked changes to fix some protocol breakages seems reasonable,
> and it should easy enough to do.
>
> > I know that I haven't been active in the project, but have some time over
> the next weeks that I can invest.  (It would also be great if I had a more
> experienced expert to collaborate with.)  I really think we need to push
> hard and get a completed 1.4 out the door.
>
> I fully agree.  What we need is a deadline; 1.4 has languished long enough,
> and the fact of the matter is that fixing every bug is simply an impossible
> goal.
>
> I propose Thursday, May 13.  It's a largely selfish date: I'll have a
> couple days prior in which I am free to focus on nothing but hacking on
> Adium, and since I have company in town that weekend (and every other
> weekend in May) I don't want to release on or immediately before the
> weekend.
>

I'm done with this semester, and gaining a huge amount of free time, before
then. Let's do it.


>
> Let's ship.  The momentum we gain - both for ourselves, seeing a major
> release finally moving, and from the outside as folks see how much we've
> accomplished - will make 1.4.1 a much easier goal than 1.4 was.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Evan
>
>
>
> >
> > Let me know how I can best help,
> >
> > Alan
> > --
> > alangh at adium.im
> >
> >
> > On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:11 PM, John Bailey wrote:
> >
> >> On 04/20/2010 11:22 PM, Eric Richie wrote:
> >>> Are there any outstanding issues other than the Y! thing (and maybe the
> MSN security patch) that we would need to take care of for 1.3.11?
> >>
> >> Gadu-Gadu support in the libpurple 2.5.9 included in Adium 1.3.10 is
> quite
> >> deficient as well, due to the bundled libgadu being practically
> prehistoric.  It
> >> looks like the following revisions from the im.pidgin.adium.1-4 branch
> would
> >> need to be plucked (if cleanly possible) to the im.pidgin.adium.1-3
> branch to
> >> fix both Gadu-Gadu and Yahoo! JAPAN:
> >>
> >> e6348335d02982e12c2be1a30517d7ea46569c51
> >> 48c2553ef4b46482b26f021c97d2569c1b053227
> >> 6a525a20cfffe39369fb58b72aeaf5194aa468d9
> >> 692d75f8dc28e433931f5a4b036c145f132c42ba
> >> 91e41e5288f7f90048a8cf7d05bedc87aacfa3de
> >> 47085b9fe64551b697ca9ba601b8c0323e47c449
> >>
> >> I have not yet tried to apply these revisions to the adium.1-3 branch.
>  I don't
> >> see a point in doing that until there's a decision about whether a
> 1.3.11 is
> >> necessary.  Also, I'm not sure what revision would be necessary for the
> MSN
> >> security fix mentioned.  If someone does know, I'd be happy to pluck it
> across
> >> with the others listed above when a decision is reached.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>


-- 
Zachary West
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