[kde-promo] Kopete changes for KDE 4.11

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Thursday 15 August 2013 06:22:19 Carl Symons wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 July 2013 22:47:26 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> >> On Saturday, July 13, 2013 09:53:25 Pali Rohár wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > 
> >> > Kopete in KDE 4.11 has fixed more bugs and has lot of new
> >> > features (comparing to 4.10/9/8 versions). I'm sending list
> >> > of some new changes which could be in KDE 4.11 release
> >> > page.
> >> > 
> >> > * Kopete migrated from svn to git
> >> > * Fixed memory leaks, corruptions and NULL dereferences
> >> > * Fixed lot of Kopete crashes at exit, at logout and when
> >> > closing modal dialogs * Support for adding new contacts to
> >> > Top Level group * Allow inviting users to groupchat by
> >> > drag-n-dropping * Automatically logout and login with
> >> > suspend/resume * Activate webcam preview in settings dialog
> >> > only if webcam tab is selected * New sqlite history plugin
> >> > (by default old one is used and new is disabled) * SSL
> >> > support for ICQ protocol (enabled by default for all ICQ
> >> > accounts) * Updated jabber libiris library from upstream
> >> > 
> >> >     - Fixed lot of connections problems (specialy legacy SSL
> >> >     and logining) - Support for SCRAM-SHA-1 SASL login
> >> >     mechanism (needed for new servers) - XMPP 1.0 support
> >> >     (this fixed login to gmx, facebook and other servers)
> >> > 
> >> > * Updated jabber google libjingle library for gtalk voice
> >> > calls * Fixed wizard for registring new jabber account
> >> > * Support for jabber XEP-0184: Message Delivery Receipts
> >> > (sender and reciver of chat messages will see delivery
> >> > status) * Support for jabber XEP-0199: XMPP Ping
> >> > * Fixed problems with skype protocol when user sent or
> >> > recived same/duplicate messages
> >> 
> >> I love you. Really, if I wasn't married, I might propose ;-)
> >> 
> >> If only more developers would do this ;-)
> >> 
> >> Thanks a lot!
> >> 
> >> @release team: I'd love it if you folk would think about a
> >> process change for our development which would include,
> >> somewhere, the writing-down-of-features a bit like above.
> >> Like in the always-summer thing: feature branches being
> >> merged need a proper explanation (like above) and a tag
> >> ("FEATURE:XX) or get denied. Or something like that. Then
> >> we'd just collect the change logs that are tagged with
> >> FEATURE and we can write announcements.
> >> 
> >> /me can dream
> > 
> > Ah, I'm unhappy, that you did not mention anything about kopete
> > on KDE 4.11 release page :-( Now for users it can looks like
> > kopete development is dead...
> > 
> > --
> > Pali Rohár
> > pali.rohar at gmail.com
> 
> On behalf of everyone who worked on the announcement...some much more
> than others (Jos)...I apologize.

let me also apologize myself, I must have missed adding this. I'm really sorry 
as it is a very good text... It just slipped through the cracks :(

> I've added a comment to the Dot story. Ironically, Kopete will get
> more attention this way than if had been summarized and included in
> the announcement.
> 
> Your information is exactly what is needed from developers so that
> developers' work can be publicized properly. This episode makes it
> painfully clear that the release process needs to be improved.
> 
> Carl
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