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Gmail & AIM

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Mr. Mike Jazayeri announced that you can now sign into AIM from Gmail’s chat interface.1 This integration is cool, but I would love to see it go a step further. I would like to be able to add AIM buddies to my Google talk buddy list directly. That will truly be a [...]

I appear in print

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

A few days ago several of us (Pidgin developers) were approached by Ms. Dahna McConnachie asking for an interview for the Australian version of PC World. Apparently I was one of the only developers to respond to her request, and as a result, I have now appeared in print.1 I only spent an [...]

trac excitement

Monday, September 17th, 2007

In the days immediately preceding the 2.2.0 release, I called for some time to be spent looking at the growing backlog of bugs and enhancement requests that has accumulated in trac since we went public with pidgin and finch. Sean in particular responded beyond my hopes, closing more than 100 tickets in just [...]

Name confusion

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Something rather amusing happened today. I realized that one of my less computer inclined friends was never aware of our name change. He discovered Pidgin from a list of clients on the LiveJournal website, downloaded it, and was very confused as to why installing it caused Gaim to disappear. Yay for people [...]

on forks and forking

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Last night someone saw fit to spam our ticketing system with a comment appended to one ticket, and a new ticket submission with text identical to the preceding comment. These posts are fairly typical of the requests we see for the return of protocol icons, demonstrating the childishness of the requesters, and the typical [...]

as release nears

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

As the release of pidgin & finch (and libPurple) 2.0.2 draws near, I cannot be but proud to work with such an amazing group of people. Though it appears that 65 tickets will slip, will be pushed from this release to the next, my co-developers have closed an amazing 89 tickets for this release, [...]

beta7

Monday, April 30th, 2007

We released beta7 last night. I think Sean scared people off by saying that this is the first of the betas to actually be of “beta” quality. Still, there have been about 15 thousand downloads of it so far, and very few bug reports. My colleagues deserve the credit for this, working [...]

Old (SF) tracker items

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

It has come to my attention that when I changed the SF Bug, RFE, Support, gtk-bugs, and rejected patches trackers to be visible to project members only, SF stopped sending emails out to people who had commented on those items, but are not project members.

I closed these trackers down shortly after our public release because [...]

Verizon

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Today in the logs I notice that Verizon is denying all mail from pidgin.im. While less than pleased with this, I am also reluctant to jump through hoops for every ISP out there. We run very standard mailing list software (mailman), and with the sole exception of having migrated users over from the [...]

Distracted by Alpine

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Spent some time today trying to get alpine’s webmail component up and running. I am pleased to see that the authors of pine are coming out with a webmail that should work with my maildir setup.

Still, at the same time, I ought not to have worked on it just now. I need to [...]

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