What is the benefit of Adium these days? I like the interface and having multiple services in one place but people have moved on to individual software that do 10 times more. Has the user base of Pidgin grown over the years?
Are these protocols still growing or used by enough people to warrant them in one place? AIM Bonjour Gadu-Gadu Google Talk Groupwise ICQ IRC SILC SIMPLE Sametime XMPP Zephyr. Even people said in this thread they moved to Slack or some similar software and not using IRC. I feel the issue is the number of developers who work on the project. A lot of the developers got busy with life and that is great. On Sat., Jan. 19, 2019, 02:16 Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:39 PM Matthew <mathuaerkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm more interested in the documentation than the tickets. Docs help >> current and future users for the product we already provide, no >> development necessary. Next would be improvements to enable >> incremental development. But even with zero future development, we can >> do better for our users. >> > > Funny you mention documentation. Pidgin is currently in the process of > converting pidgin.im and developer.pidgin.im into a static site generated > by hugo. You can see an early version of it at http://nest.pidgin.im. > All the docs are being converted from the genshi template format that trac > uses to markdown which hugo then renders. Hugo has a huge theme database > and it's pretty straight forward to get going with. > > >> >> And while it would certainly be nice to have the tickets, it's a lot >> of work, and isn't necessary to do things like "...getting an update >> out in step with Libpurple, removing (adding) accounts on any >> abandoned networks, and porting some new prpls to Adium". >> > > The other thing about the old tickets is... If they're really bad.. > they'll reappear :) > > >> Is there any reason we shouldn't "simply" move development, tickets, >> and wiki to BitBucket? >> > > Pidgin only moved the code to bitbucket primarily for pull requests. The > wiki isn't bad, but it's not great either. See my earlier comments about > moving to hugo and https://nest.pidgin.im for the way Pidgin went. > Issues are problematic too as Bitbucket's issues are super nerfed as > Atlassian wants you to use Jira... That said, Atlassian does offer open > source licenses for all of their products. That's how Pidgin is using > Bamboo. > > Thanks, > > -- > Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com> >
