One critical security flaw...

Marcus Lundblad ml at update.uu.se
Sun Jan 31 16:42:01 EST 2010


sön 2010-01-31 klockan 16:12 -0500 skrev John Bailey:
> On 01/13/2010 11:27 PM, John Bailey wrote:
> > My only reason for being hesitant to rush to 3.0.0 is that I was hoping we could
> > get gobjectification done for 3.0.0, but I don't see that happening.  In the
> > interests of Getting Stuff Done(TM), I propose the following:
> > 	* Finish the ICQ X-Status stuff ASAP for 2.7.0 (string freeze
> > 	  for release within 3 days of completed merge).
> > 	* As soon as 2.7.0 is out, create a branch such as
> > 	  im.pidgin.pidgin.2.7.x (I'm open to better names) from the tag
> > 	  of 2.7.0 for future maintenance releases.
> > 	* Once 2.7.x is branched, 2.x.y is API frozen--no new API unless
> > 	  absolutely required to fix a security issue.
> > 	* Once 2.7.x is branched, im.pidgin.pidgin is for 3.0.0 development.
> > 	  All new features, API additions, etc. should happen only on this
> > 	  branch or other branches that will be merged *only* to
> > 	  im.pidgin.pidgin.
> > 
> > Thoughts, better ideas, etc are certainly welcome.
> > 
> > John
> 

What's the status on the X-Status stuff?

Also I had been working on a new function to enumerate local IPs, this
still should be fixed to handle IPv6 addresses. The current (IPv4-only
version is in next.minor already).

//Marcus

> No one has bothered to reply to this message in the last two and a half weeks.
> Should I assume this means no one wants to do any of this?
> 
> John
> 
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