> 1. Favorite Color cannot be UNKNOWN ... OR
> 2. I just put a hack in that will change the Favorite Color from UNKOWN to
> a random color only once (which should not be merged
> into the master or should be immidiatly removed)
>
> Shouldn't it be just the hash of the JID, as it was? What was wrong with
that?
> Your choice is ? :P
>
> BR,
> Stefan
>
> ---------------
> Am 19.03.2013 20:19, schrieb Zieris, Franz:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> I see. This also explains why no color is pre-selected in the Appearance
> preference page.
>
> How "hacky" is your idea? There is no need for a quick-and-dirty solution.
>
> However, I would like to release on Friday, to have enough time for the
> following things:
> * Reviewing the announcement/README file
> * Figuring out the drop-in problem (that your task, Michael)
> * Preparing the announcement of the new Saros website -- which should be
> available as soon as the DNS servers invalidated their caches.
>
> Franz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Rossbach [mailto:srossb...@arcor.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:14 PM
> To: Zieris, Franz
> Cc: dpp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [DPP-Devel] Default colors for Saros upgraders -- Re-Release
>
> Hi Franz,
>
> the default favorite color is not blue on new installation but UNKOWN,
> therefore you get the next free available color on startup (which is 0 =
> blue).
>
> I can create a hack for the current release if you like.
>
> BR,
> Stefan
>
> Am 19.03.2013 20:09, schrieb Zieris, Franz:
> Dear developers,
>
> during the development of the recent weeks I was under the impression,
> that the default favorite color is assigned randomly, based on a JID hash
> or something. But as it happens, the default color is always blue, leaving
> all new and upgrading Saros users with the *same* default color (blue),
> thus leading reliably to color conflicts.
>
> I just commented out the entries of for release 13.3.15 in the Update Site
> (site.xml), for the following reasons:
> * Fixing this in the next release would be cumbersome, because one needs
> to discriminate the state of an untouched favorite color blue from the
> deliberately chosen color blue.
> * The past has shown, that many Saros installations take place during
> the first week after a release, so waiting a few days and releasing a new
> version, while the current one is still available is not an option.
>
> I created a bug tracker item for this topic [1], and would appreciate a
> rapid processing. (Stefan: Are you keen on taking care of this?)
>
> I created a re-release branch (release/13.3.22, branching off of
> release/13.3.15). Please push the bug-fix to this branch
> (refs/for/release/13.3.22).
>
> Michael: Please do not announce any release yet. Instead, you might
> prepare the build patches and announcement messages for release 13.3.22.
>
> If you have questions, please don't hesitate asking.
>
> Franz
>
>
> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/dpp/bugs/796/
>
>
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