Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: Choice of Media Library

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:48:21AM -0500, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> 
> Herein lies a very important fact: With no video/voice support, users  
> (except a small but vocal group who love to be obnoxious)  
> understand.  "Gaim does not support webcams." "Gaim does not support  
> voice." Straightforward.  If we add a feature, it should be Right  
> before shipping.  Of course, by that logic, AIM shouldn't have  
> DirectIM support (well, it doesn't, basically) and MSN perhaps  
> shouldn't be shipping (since it crashes).  There's something to be  
> said for getting it out there first and refining it later, certainly,  
> but 2.0.0 is going to be a huge and wonderful release... I'd hate to  
> see something which appears very exciting (voice support!  or, better  
> yet, voice/video support!) be a detracting rather than an enhancing  
> factor to the release.
> 
> From reading commits (I haven't updated and compiled this week), it  
> looks like there's still lots of work to be done for the voice  
> support which has been added.  Is that work going to take away from  
> making the new status system right before shipping?
> 
> -Evan
> www.adiumx.com
> 

Sean hasn't done much with status since before he started at google.
Tim and Kingant, along with a number of patch authors, have been the
heros here.  If they get status stable before voice is, then we'll
ship 2.0.0 without voice.

luke