No, the patch queue thing isn't particularly useful. 1 star. Do get in touch with Frank (Wixardy). He has been hacking on it a bit, but ran into some problems. I can forward you the email I have with his changes in it (just got it on Friday).
-Colin On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <eva...@dreskin.net>wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Colin Barrett wrote: > > https://bitbucket.org/cbarrett/adium-facebook-xmpp > > Getting OAuth login working for Facebook is one of the outstanding tasks > for 1.4.2. I have OAuth itself working fine w/ a test service type -- it > just needs an acceptable UI hooked up and it needs to be integrated into the > actual FB XMPP service type. I don't have as much free time as I thought and > would love some help finishing it. > > The bitbucket link above btw is an mq patch repository. Sorry it's in a > weird format but I was trying it out. This blog post may be able to help you > figure it out: > http://ches.nausicaamedia.com/articles/technogeekery/using-mercurial-queues-and-bitbucket-orgIf > you need more help, ask me. > > > I think it's a rule that any time I try to sit down to do some Adium work, > I'll spend more time dealing with non-Adium things than actually coding. > > In the last 2 days I have: > - Dealt with 2 unrelated build issues on my local system > - Dealt with a long merge issue to maintain a patch that we'd applied to > libpurple's IRC some time ago to provide 'away' status updates > - Subsequently ported it upstream so that others can benefit and we don't > have to worry about that merge issue in the future > - Done it wrong and had to disapprove all the revisions, figure out how to > switch branches in monotone (you can't, I think... you just do a new > checkout on the desired branch), and pluck them to > im.pidgin.pidgin.next.minor (since it adds API) > - Hunted down a change in libpurple (in which the typing flag was cleared > after calling the ui_op for displaying the message) which led to a crash in > Adium when our automatic handling of certain IRC messages caused the > conversation to be closed before the run loop canceled > > And now after reading the requisite how-to blog post (for a system which > appears to think it is *perfectly reasonable *to have steps like, "To push > out your changes for others, `*cd .hg/patches*` from the root of the repo > you *qclone*’d and `*hg push*`." Obviously!) I'm waiting for a fresh > checkout of adium-1.4 with this patch queue. So, did you decide this patch > queue thing was useful? > > -Evan >
