Pidgin 2.6.0

[John Bailey-2]

Hey, guys,

I've been looking at the list of blockers for 2.6.0.  Thanks to Paul, we were
down to two, which were the patches on #3319 (which I have outright rejected)
and the merging of the ICQ X-Status stuff.  Currently, the ICQ X-Status stuff is
the only remaining blocker.

Since this is all that remains, I propose that we push the ICQ X-Status stuff to
2.7.0 and start a string freeze next Sunday lasting for at least two weeks to
give translators adequate time to catch up, since I get the feeling we've had a
lot of string changes.  Ideally I'd like to have 2.6.0 released on July 30.

Thoughts?  Objections?

John



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[Ethan Blanton-3]

John Bailey spake unto us the following wisdom:

> I've been looking at the list of blockers for 2.6.0.  Thanks to Paul,
> we were down to two, which were the patches on #3319 (which I have
> outright rejected) and the merging of the ICQ X-Status stuff.
> Currently, the ICQ X-Status stuff is the only remaining blocker.
>
> Since this is all that remains, I propose that we push the ICQ
> X-Status stuff to 2.7.0 and start a string freeze next Sunday lasting
> for at least two weeks to give translators adequate time to catch up,
> since I get the feeling we've had a lot of string changes.  Ideally
> I'd like to have 2.6.0 released on July 30.

I'm not going to hold 2.6.0 up for this, necessarily, but we've been
sitting on the X-Status stuff for a *while* now.  I recall that when I
looked at it, it didn't seem that there was a lot I could personally
usefully do for it.  What does it need, exactly, and who needs to do
it (or do we know)?  Is there anything the rest of us can do to help?
I'd really like to see this go in.

Ethan

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[John Bailey-2]

Ethan Blanton wrote:
> I'm not going to hold 2.6.0 up for this, necessarily, but we've been
> sitting on the X-Status stuff for a *while* now.  I recall that when I
> looked at it, it didn't seem that there was a lot I could personally
> usefully do for it.  What does it need, exactly, and who needs to do
> it (or do we know)?  Is there anything the rest of us can do to help?
> I'd really like to see this go in.

Richard said that all we needed was to finish the UI for it.  But I don't know
exactly what he had planned for it or if he has any changes in his local
databases that he hasn't pushed yet.

The fact that we have been sitting on the X-Status stuff for so long is why I
originally had it on the list of blockers.

John



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[Mark Doliner]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:52 PM, John Bailey<rekkanoryo@...> wrote:

> Hey, guys,
>
> I've been looking at the list of blockers for 2.6.0.  Thanks to Paul, we were
> down to two, which were the patches on #3319 (which I have outright rejected)
> and the merging of the ICQ X-Status stuff.  Currently, the ICQ X-Status stuff is
> the only remaining blocker.
>
> Since this is all that remains, I propose that we push the ICQ X-Status stuff to
> 2.7.0 and start a string freeze next Sunday lasting for at least two weeks to
> give translators adequate time to catch up, since I get the feeling we've had a
> lot of string changes.  Ideally I'd like to have 2.6.0 released on July 30.
>
> Thoughts?  Objections?

String freezing for 2.6.0 next Sunday sounds great to me.  I would
vote for a little more than a two week freeze.  Maybe two and a half
or three.

-Mark

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[Richard Laager]

On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 18:52 -0400, John Bailey wrote:
> Hey, guys,
>
> I've been looking at the list of blockers for 2.6.0.  Thanks to Paul, we were
> down to two, which were the patches on #3319 (which I have outright rejected)
> and the merging of the ICQ X-Status stuff.  Currently, the ICQ X-Status stuff is
> the only remaining blocker.

Yeah, I need to get that done. The work for the PPA for the 2.5.7
release soaked up way too much time.

> Since this is all that remains, I propose that we push the ICQ X-Status stuff to
> 2.7.0

That sounds reasonable to me. I'm going to be traveling for a week
starting Thursday, so things are pretty hectic for me--even more so than
usual. I'm not sure if I'll get that stuff done this week or not. I'll
see what I can do.

Richard

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