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Spicebird 0.7 - Coming on 20th November
The Spicebird team is happy to announce that the next Beta of Spicebird will be released on the 20th of November, 2008. Over the next five days, I will keep blogging about the various things that the Spicebird team has worked on to make Spicebird 0.7 more stable and better set for the later releases.
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Spicebird 0.7 is around the corner
The next release has been round the corner for quite a while, here is the current status
7 bugs blocking the release (code)
5 of the 7 bugs already have patches up for review
The other two being a build bug and another in calendar that we are struggling to reproduce!
So what’s left before the release?
Setting up the [...]
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Spicebird 0.7: About 40 bugs away!
Recently Siva gave an update on Spicebird 0.7 - A few bugs were fixed after his update, a few more are assigned and already have attachments on them to be reviewed. The following gives a summary of the latest state
40 bugs blocking Spicebird Beta 0.7
16 assigned bugs
Patches pending review would fix about 8 bugs
Apart from [...]
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Update on Spicebird 0.7
When we set course for 0.7 release, the major objective was to include support for multi-protocol Instant Messaging, blogging and many other changes to the UI & features. Prasad already gave an update about this. We had to take unexplored paths and sometimes we were not be able to guage how deep the rabbit hole was. It sure did take a huge effort, but after solving the challenges, we have been running smoothly for quite sometime now. For the purpose of numbers, 108 bugs were fixed in the last month.
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More bug-fixing for the 0.7
About 25 bugs were fixed over the last week and among them is the “0.7 cannot read calendars from 0.4″. The next release of Spicebird - the 0.7 is round the corner. About the release schedule, it’s a few blockers and a little testing thats needed, which could take upto 10 days.
We are also working [...]
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Empathy shipping with Gnome 2.24
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/
Empathy is a Telepathy framework based instant messaging client and its inclusion into GNOME 2.24 means that Telepathy and related libraries will be available on most linux distributions by default. That will make the life of Spicebird easier in the linux world
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Bug Fixing and Calendar make-over
Last week we had exciting time fixing many bugs on Spicebird - some of them crashers, Sunil committing his work on blogging and the new calendar-theme.
Starting with the 14th of September, the nightly builds have been randomly crashing on windows which a lot of users reported. The fixes were committed on Thursday and made their [...]
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Cleaner date formats
Today Ashok committed a patch on the Spicebird trunk that adds support for short-date formats in the e-mail listing. The Mozilla platform does have API and necessary enumerations to request short date formats, but underneath the implementation was missing and all it returned was the same long date format which looked like “Thursday 12 June [...]
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Long pending updates on Spicebird Development
The Spicebird team was working behind-the-doors for quiet some time and its probably time to start involving the community more closely and to start posting updates more frequently - one summary update every week apart from the normal feature/development blogs.
Here is the current status of Spicebird and following it are the expected timelines for the [...]
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Trying to get back to blogging
It’s been more than a year since I blogged here, it’s not becuase I did not have anything to blog about, but it was mostly because I was away biking in the Himalayas, enjoying the beach in Goa, a boat ride in the Papi Kondalu area of Godavari river, attending the Mozilla Summit or very [...]
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