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[Luke Schierer]

No, in point of fact I was responding to the fact that it was about to
be published on /.  It was in the "pending" queue there.  I, not being
able to reach many gaim developers, in particularly not having any
contact info for you or Mark other than email or IM, and having no
access to IM myself then, knew that I had to make a decision.

It was going to go on /. reguardless.  I chose to make it public so that
we could influence the form in which it reached /..  As a result of my
decision, the article the /. editors chose was one that included a link
to our annoucement.

This was precipitated by a failure on my part.  I sent an email to
packagers & translators, on Mark's nomination.  I should have realized
that the email to translators would be noticed.  

I appologize for that failure.

luke

On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:25:18PM -0700, Sean Egan 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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