msn-pecan 0.1 good enough?

[Felipe Contreras]

Hey Evan,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <evan at adium.im> wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
> Avoid regressions as much as possible is a good policy. No regressions
> ever until the end of times even if most users would be happy with it,
> is not.
>
> For reference, I downloaded and tried the msn-pecan / Adium test from Google
> Code when it was first announced. I didn't catch any noticeable benefits so
> I subsequently switched back to the stock Adium. I was initially impressed
> by the enthusiasm, but after researching the history of the fork and what it
> does exactly, I can say that I've lost that enthusiasm.
>
> Good that it works for you... I assume you don't care about the
> countless people that can't even login or get constant disconnections.
>
> Choices are always about trade-offs.  If msn-pecan fixes a number of
> problems, this could be worth it even if it generates new ones.
> Felipe has said he is most concerned about users, not developers, in terms
> of implementing features.  Felipe, if we took you at your word and moved to
> msn-pecan for Adium 1.5, would you be willing to commit to working on the
> MSN-Yahoo bridge if a significant response requesting it (or rather, noting
> its sudden absence) were made, either during the 1.5 beta period or after
> its release, for the feature, regardless of the theoretical possibility of a
> 'work around' but adding a separate Yahoo account?

Let me clarify; Adium is important for msn-pecan, but so are other
features already in the queue. I said that YIM support might be easy
in msn-pecan 0.2, but actually I meant 0.3. So, it depends on when the
work in Adium 1.5 starts and same for msn-pecan 0.3.

Also, it depends on how big the response of the user-base is.

Supposing msn-pecan 0.3 is ready by the time Adium 1.5 starts, and a
considerable amount of users complain about lack of YIM support, then
yeah; I don't see any problem implementing the missing feature.
However that is something that we should decide later on when 1.5
starts.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras