Hello all, first I'll talk about the next release (0.97) then I'll give you some stats that we get from our website, thanks to lePhilousophe! so.. what about the next release ? huh ? well, it's taking too much time.. at the speed we're at, it will take a really long time before we get it out, although we're "almost" there.. the original deadline was april 1st, then I made it march 1st seeing how fast development was, then it stalled.. so I hope we still get amsn out for april 1st, ok ? so what's left for us ? well, here's the latest TODO list for the next release : New Complete 0.97 TODO : - Implement OIM support (task # 133878 and # 135637) (billiob/lephilousophe) (make it work behind proxies)[1;5F - Finish the audio/video assitant (task # 124048) (billiob) - Finish support for MSN spaces (task # 124063) (scapor/karel/kakaroto) (make it work behind proxies) - Finish the new Skin - Add option to order contacts by status or not in the CL - Complete the new login_screen feature (task # 136722) (bluetit)
I want to talk about each one of them one by one.. first : - Implement OIM support (task # 133878 and # 135637) (billiob/lephilousophe) (make it work behind proxies) So far, the OIM support seems to be COMPLETE, although the use of tclsoap makes it very very slow, so I wonder if we should replace tclsoap with using the http command directly, because we use NOTHING from tclsoap, lol, we generate the whole xml ourself, and we parse the whole response ourself, so.. it's useless apart from adding an incredibly huge overhead AND preventing us from adding proxy support.. so yes, the second point is that even if it's complete, we still don't have support for proxies because it seems almost impossible to do with tclsoap.. so the question is : 1 - we keep it as is, screw the proxy people, and screw those who think that the pc freezing for a few minutes is a big deal 2 - rewrtie it, replacing 'tclsoap:;create' by 'http::geturl' ? - Finish the audio/video assitant (task # 124048) (billiob) This seems to be finished and working pretty well! congrats on billiob! now the thing is that we'll have to integrate it with the prefs window, right now, it's in the chat window->edit->edit a/v settings, but the old webcam wizard is stil lin the prefs->other->configure webcam. we couldn't replace it because that configure webcam still ha sinfo about whether you're firewalled or not, etc.. so we could either : 1 - replace the 'configure webcam' by the a/v settings and leave the firewall thing elsewhere 3 - leve the 'configure webcam' but change the webcam wizard (through the button 'change webcam settings') by the assistant 2 - add a new step for network capabilities in the assistant and replace the whole configure webcam button. - Finish support for MSN spaces (task # 124063) (scapor/karel/kakaroto) (make it work behind proxies) well well.. this seems to be completely stalled.. so .. what do we want to do now : 1- drop the feature 2 - complete it 3- leave it half-way done 4 - make it 'usable' but not 'wow it's great' - Finish the new Skin humm.. it looks good so far ? I suppose Gus has kept all the comments in his own TODO list, so I don't know how far we're away from completing the new skin.. for now, let's try and make it 'look nice', I like it very much the way it is right now, apart from the colors/bg and when the status (away) is in grey and the bg behind it grey, you can't see the status of a user, etc... so maybe just work on that.. So, could Gus or Lee give us a status report on this please ? thanks - Add option to order contacts by status or not in the CL this is already done, we only need to add a one liner :checkbutton $w -variable [::config::getvar orderuserbystatus] the questionis WHERE TO PUT IT? advanced pref? the 'view' menu ? where ? - Complete the new login_screen feature (task # 136722) (bluetit) yeay!! it looks almost complete, a few small issues, especially the 'forget me' and the placing of the elements, depending on the size of the main window, it's great work so far, let's hope it gets finished soon! In other words, I see that we almost finished, if we all take a few minutes someday and try to work on the TODO stuff instead of working on non-TODO related things (or watching tv :p) thenw e could be able to get 0.97 out really soon! so what do you suggest guys (+viv:p) ? I asked a few questions/options for some todo items above, could everyone try to give their opinions on those things ? this way we can sort out the TODO list and make it smaller until we get 0.97 in a usable state.. thanks all for reading this! Now, my second part of my mail (smaller this time, don't worry :p) is that, a couple of days ago (maybe a week ago?) Phil modified the website and added statistics to every file downloaded by the user, so now, we have a count on how many downloads we got per plugin and per skin and per screenshot.. the results are quite interesting, but to access the stats, you need to have admin access to the website, so I thought it would be nice to share this information to you guys too.. ok, I just checked amsn-commits and Phil added the feat on March 5th, so it's been exactly a week.. so one week of stats, give us this : Skins statistics Name Count aMSN Live! 2207 aMSN Vista Futurosoft 1606 WinMSN7 889 aMSN for Mac 764 Aqua Skin 704 aDarwin 624 Clearlooks 482 aMSN Candy 437 Tux 410 Stylish-brushed 393 Emerald 373 Brushed Metal 348 Tiger Xi skin v1.0 336 Ubuntu (Human) 320 Ubuntu 283 Kubuntu 243 No Name 238 Parti-Pirate 214 C12's Dapper Theme 210 Aquaish 209 nilo-skin v0.2 205 franto2 203 Catalunya Skin 201 Astaroth's Skin 194 Windows Classic Theme 175 Clearlooks BigIcon mod 166 F.C. Barcelona Skin 155 Unified 143 Haudrey 132 pmdzskin 111 Ixtus 109 Snow Grey 102 Plugins statistics Name Count aMSN Plus! 1953 Music 971 DualDisplayPicture 829 BigSmileys 603 Desktop Integration 558 Chameleon 428 amsnEliza 312 WinSkin 261 GNotify 256 Invisibility 226 Address Book 225 msntranslator 223 Games Plugin 207 Colorize 203 Remind 198 SendDraw 197 userstatus 197 Faking It! 166 SpellCheck 166 POP3 154 Emotes 142 Say It 141 BugBuddy 132 AutoReplace 126 Growl 123 Minimizer 114 Organize Received 108 What Is 107 DBus Viewer 90 GLogs 88 TeXIM 86 Gename 77 Drae 76 FPSstats 65 MacRise 61 MoveWin 59 Changeit 55 Screenshots statistics Name Count Auto-message 1795 Webcam 452 Main Windows 241 Friendly names 173 Smiley chooser 155 Display Picture thumbnails 136 Personal Messages 129 Preferences 116 So congrats to the skin developers and plugin developers who scored top10 :) that's all for today! p.s.: if you reply to this mail, don't just say 'wow, cool stats', at least time the time to answer my questions about the TODO! 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