On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:55 AM, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 10:21 -0500, Gary Kramlich wrote: >> > It's also a little hard to add the new features that we need, as things >> > stand. I actually ended up backporting a bunch of stuff from 3.x to the >> > 2.x branch a while back, to support everything that Lync needed. I'm >> > kind of resigned to the fact that I might need to do the same, for the >> > protocol I'm working on now. >> >> Dang, well let me know where I can help. > > Thanks. > > I think you've actually already done the most useful thing, which is to > give me commit access and tell me to go ahead and backport the missing > features to 2.x that I needed. That meant that the lack of a 3.0 > release didn't actually prevent me from being able to ship those > features at all. > > Obviously where I'd want to *change* an API rather than adding one, > that approach is more complicated, but we've been able to cope so far. > > At some point I need to reinstate my access now that the repo has moved > to bitbucket, and then I can start submitting patches for review again.
We've just been doing the forking model and saving direct commits to the main repo for extreme circumstances. Ie: tagging and other weird stuff. > On the whole, I quite like the idea of switching from Telepathy to > libpurple. Much more than assuming a one-protocol-to-rule-them-all > approach. Me too, but of course I'm biased ;) > -- > dwmw2 Thanks, -- Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
