Spicebird Beta 0.7.1 is a maintenance and bug-fix release of Spicebird Beta 0.7 - It fixes various bugs in the 0.7 release that prevented Spicebird from starting up in a few GNU/Linux distributions, a few crashers as well as identified a workaround for a “cause-not-yet-found” memory leak in the Google Maps applet on Windows.
The announcement [...]
The Spicebird team fixed a good number of bugs since the 0.7 release. Sunil is taking care of this release and he will be announcing a string/code freeze soon. If everything goes well, Spicebird 0.7.1 is expected to be released in less than 10 days!
The release will include the much awaited ICQ and AOL messenger [...]
The release announcement from spicebird.com.
Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more [...]
The Spicebird team is happy to announce that the next Beta of Spicebird will be released on the 20th of November, 2008. Over the next five days, I will keep blogging about the various things that the Spicebird team has worked on to make Spicebird 0.7 more stable and better set for the later releases.
The next release has been round the corner for quite a while, here is the current status
7 bugs blocking the release (code)
5 of the 7 bugs already have patches up for review
The other two being a build bug and another in calendar that we are struggling to reproduce!
So what’s left before the release?
Setting up the [...]
Recently Siva gave an update on Spicebird 0.7 - A few bugs were fixed after his update, a few more are assigned and already have attachments on them to be reviewed. The following gives a summary of the latest state
40 bugs blocking Spicebird Beta 0.7
16 assigned bugs
Patches pending review would fix about 8 bugs
Apart from [...]
About 25 bugs were fixed over the last week and among them is the “0.7 cannot read calendars from 0.4″. The next release of Spicebird - the 0.7 is round the corner. About the release schedule, it’s a few blockers and a little testing thats needed, which could take upto 10 days.
We are also working [...]
By prasad | September 26, 2008
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/
Empathy is a Telepathy framework based instant messaging client and its inclusion into GNOME 2.24 means that Telepathy and related libraries will be available on most linux distributions by default. That will make the life of Spicebird easier in the linux world
Also tagged foss, spicebird |
By prasad | September 22, 2008
Last week we had exciting time fixing many bugs on Spicebird - some of them crashers, Sunil committing his work on blogging and the new calendar-theme.
Starting with the 14th of September, the nightly builds have been randomly crashing on windows which a lot of users reported. The fixes were committed on Thursday and made their [...]
By prasad | September 16, 2008
The Spicebird team was working behind-the-doors for quiet some time and its probably time to start involving the community more closely and to start posting updates more frequently - one summary update every week apart from the normal feature/development blogs.
Here is the current status of Spicebird and following it are the expected timelines for the [...]