Re: becoming a dev

Alexi,

Take a look at the developer pages at http://fire.sourceforge.net/ 
development/ if you are still interested in helping out on the  
Development process.

Alan
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Alan Humpherys
Fire Development Team
http://fire.sf.net

On Oct 31, 2004, at 8:07 PM, Alexei Svitkine wrote:

> Hey, I'm interested in becoming a dev for Fire, and I'm wondering  
> what I need to do to become one. I've already have some code that I  
> would like to contribute - but obviously the Fire CVS repository  
> doesn't accept anonymous commits. Basically, it always annoyed me  
> that if you set up custom Aliases for your MSN buddies, you lose  
> all ability to view the nicknames that they've manually set (the  
> ones that show up in the standard MSN client). This is actually  
> something which already has a few entries on the bugtracker/ 
> wishlists on sourceforge. So I got annoyed enough to download the  
> Fire source, mess with it, and build my own copy for personal use.  
> My changes are pretty straight forward - I basically duplicated the  
> displayName instance variable in the BuddyItem class, along with  
> its basic methods, naming the new one updatedDisplayName. Then I  
> went to the code that sets the displayName on an update (only if  
> the user has a pref checked), and made it also set the  
> updatedDisplayName to the updated name regardless of user prefs, so  
> that version on our side will always be current to what the server  
> sends as updates. Then I messed with the displaying in buddies  
> window and tooltip to include the updated name. Anyways, in my  
> opinion this should be in the main version of Fire, since at least  
> a few users have asked for this ability. How can I contribute this  
> change to the main Fire and/or maybe become a dev on the Fire team?
>
> -Myrd
>
>
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