Patches welcome :) facebook-xmpp branch in the 1.4 repo. -Colin
On Mar 6, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Shawn Khan wrote: > Hello all, > > I agree with John about the release of the beta. My thoughts are that we > should work on FBXMPP as hard as possible and see where we get when 2.7.11 is > out. Once this is out, we should review everything with 2.7.11 and FBXMPP > and decide at that time if we want to move forward with the release or wait > until FBXMPP is done. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:15 PM, John Bailey <rekkano...@rekkanoryo.org> wrote: > On 03/05/2011 01:42 PM, Robert Vehse wrote: > > MSNp16 causes unreliable file transfers and contact icons, that is true. > > > > However, not being able to add contacts is a problem we currently also have > > in Adium 1.4.1 (with p15) and which is supposed to be fixed for Pidgin > > 2.7.11: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13298. > > Ah, yes, I missed that Mark had fixed this problem. A user on the Pidgin > ticket > claims that the added buddy will appear offline. I'm not sure if this is > something that will cause user complaints or not. > > > So as far as libpurple goes I'm in favour of updating it. > > I would recommend waiting a few more days until we release 2.7.11 and updating > libpurple again, then. > > > I'm not sure about Facebook XMPP migration because I'm unclear as to where > > we're stuck. But what I've learnt from updates that involved migrations in > > the past is that they to require a good deal of testing so I agree with > > others who said we should do that before putting a beta with it out > > (provided, we'll wait on Facebook XMPP migration for 1.4.2). > > I know you've been telling users 1.4.2 would include Facebook plugin to XMPP > migration, but perhaps you should push that back another release and get the > libpurple issues fixed. Those fixes are immediate and don't require > additional > development in Adium. Facebook XMPP seems to be a major undertaking that's > gone > literally nowhere. You'll be waiting just as long as you did for 1.4 to > finally > be released at this rate. > > John > >
