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Re: Gaim 0.60 release; CVS debs on ice



Rob, 

I'm sure i speak for others when I say thanks for all your work on
these packages. I've been using the cvs snapshots and it worked great
:) You've done an excellent job, keep it up!

* Robert McQueen (robot101@debian.org) wrote:
> Just a heads up, I've uploaded Gaim 0.60 into sid as well as my CVS
> repository. For woody users, I'm sure James will have a backport in his
> repository shortly. Gaim 0.60 has been in development for about 10
> months, we've rewritten over a third of all the code since our gtk1.2
> maintainance branch was created. If you tried it before and it was a bit
> dodgy, give it a try now, it should pleasantly surprise you. =)
> 
> The buddy list, prefs window, conversation windows, IM text widget, and
> most of the dialogs have been rewritten, as well as new features like my
> tray icon (which works in GNOME 2.2, KDE 3.1, and docker for WM-dockapp
> compliant WMs) to replace the applet, session management, spiffy
> graphics, ICQ server-side lists, file transfer, correctly implemented
> i18n (but it turns out almost all other ICQ clients are broke :/), etc
> etc.
> 
> Propoganda aside, we plan to return Gaim to a fortnightly release
> schedule, like we had before Gtk2 porting (and then some) started in
> earnest. If this actually takes place, I won't be updating my CVS debs,
> as we're trying to encourage people back onto the releases to avoid
> #gaim being filled up by people moaning when we break CVS. It's actually
> hampered Gtk2 porting over the past few months, impeding our ability to
> help each other out with unfinished code.
> 
> I will backport sufficiently important fixes from CVS into the debs in
> unstable and keep up to date with new releases, as I did before.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> 

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