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Sean Egan seanegan at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 19:29:06 EDT 2007


I just read the "Announcing" thread and better understand why action
needed to be taken before I returned. I am no longer upset. Good job
handling this, Luke.

Happy Easter.

On 4/8/07, Sean Egan <seanegan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I really, really, would have liked to handle this after getting back
> from Europe, which I have now done, as I had before stated. Or at
> least had known it was happening beforehand.
>
> I saw my inbox and assumed the digg link must have made it big, but in
> fact we apparently decided to make it public. It couldn't have waited
> a few more hours?
>
> I'll followup with a more useful e-mail after I read the influx.
>
> -s.
>
> On 4/7/07, Luke Schierer <lschiere at users.sf.net> wrote:
> > 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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