Op zaterdag 17-05-2008 om 21:20 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef A. Walton:
> http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/four-words-for-funpidgin/
What went wrong in the Pidgin case is easy to see:
* Pidgin developers see a good design for this dialog; everybody
using it loves it (I think they got the idea from Adium?)
* They implement it partially but run out of time (seems like one
part of the design is difficult to implement in Gtk or
something)
* Then they release this half-implemented & buggy implementation
of a good idea as the default dialog in a stable release
(instead of keeping it as an alternative plugin for people to
test, or something like that)
* People get upset because the dialog doesn't work for them and
the Pidgin developers don't want to remove it
* The Pidgin developers later fix many but not all bugs in it
(most of these fixes are in Ubuntu 8.04 now AFAIK)
IMHO what Pidgin needs is a release manager who decides which new
developments are ready for a stable release and which are not.
Anyway, there has never been a bad _design_ choice, as most people who
use a correct implementation of the design seem to be happy with
it... ;)
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Jan Claeys
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