It’s time again to give an overview of what we’ve been doing in the last few weeks and what we plan to do next.
Done:
- The rewrite of the buddy list backend is going well. The new implementation, is almost usable (as long as you don’t need to add, remove or rename a contact). I can’t wait to land this in our nightly builds! (This will occur as soon as everything is re-implemented so there is no feature-loss). Bug 555 tracks this work.
- I’ve spent some time analyzing the crash reports we have received after the libpurple update. I emailed the Pidgin developers mailing list to share my findings. The feedback received allowed us to fix a whole class of Windows-only crashes by applying a Glib fix.
- On Mac, the mozilla-central switch from ppc/i386 universal builds to
i386/x64 universal builds caused some breakage in our nightly builds.
- For now, we have reverted to producing ppc/i386 builds, following the direction taken on comm-central.
- However, we are aware that current nightly builds are pretty broken when run on a PPC machine.
- We will switch to i386/x64 universal builds as soon as we have a new Mac build machine that can run Mac OS X 10.6 (the current nightly builds are compiled on a PowerMac G5).
- I wasted a disappointingly large amount of time trying to buy a
recent used Mac Mini on ebay, dealing with the confusing messages of
an inexperienced seller. Transaction finally canceled today, back to
square one
. - Some time spent trying to understand issues with the update system, with our servers, and our buildbot slaves. No exciting details to report about this.
- Various fixes:
Next:
- Land the new buddy list backend, and start implementing new features above it.
- Have an interesting example of a protocol plugin implemented in JS.
- Setup a nonprofit to make money matters related to the project transparent, and to be able to accept donations.