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[Luke Schierer]

The changes listed below have been made.

luke

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 03:28:11PM -0700, Ka-Hing Cheung wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 18:17 -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
> > Many years ago when this project was first started, it was called "GTK+
> > AOL Instant Messenger."  AOL naturally complained, and Mark Spencer
> > changed the name to "Gaim."  AOL was appeased, and no one really ever
> > heard of it because there were very few users back then.
> > 
> > A few years later AOL trademarked "AIM," and started refering to their
> 
> referring?
> .  
> > 
> > Since so much is changing between the name and the nature of the 2.0.0 release itself,
> > we decided to go ahead with something we have talked
> > about doing for a while now.  We have set up our own server,
> > kindly donated by DVLabs.  As a result our new home will be
> > www.pidgin.im and developer.pidgin.im  We, at least for now, will still
> > be using SF's mirroring system for releases.  However, the bug tracking
> > will no longer be on SF, and we will be migrating the mailing lists at
> > some point soon.  Also, we have chosen to go with monotone for our
> > revision control, rather than the SF cvs or svn.
> 
> linkify developer.pidgin.im
> 
> > We are going to release it with a 2.0.0 version number, and an API
> > compatability layer for plugin authors.  The project has not changed;
> 
> compatibility
> 
> -khc
> 
> 
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