Re: Yahoo fix still in progress

Motoskin wrote:

> Alan,
>
> FIRE is free for all.
>
> For my is very good soft
>
> THX for you devotion at FIRE.

I will second this.  As someone who has spent plenty of time in the open 
source community I know just how much of a commitment Alan and the rest 
of the developers are making.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  And 
pass my thanks along to the Gaim folks as well.

> Georges
> Le 16 janv. 04, à 16:50, Alan Humpherys a écrit :
>
>> Here is an update on the Yahoo fix.  Sorry it has been 7 days. My 
>> goal has been to get a solution to this problem which doesn't result 
>> in a loss of functionality.
>>
>> Gaim has switched over to use the webmessenger protocol, which 
>> doesn't have all of the features of the standard protocol Fire has 
>> been using.  Trillian users were initially encouraged to switch to an 
>> old yahoo server which wouldn't connect them with users of the 
>> standard client.  I didn't feel that either of these reduced 
>> functionality solutions was acceptable for the Fire community, so 
>> have been working with some others at creating a full solution to the 
>> problem.  Such a solution has been developed, and I am currently 
>> testing it, and working on getting it incorporated into fire.
>>
>> We will be releasing a 0.32.i version addressing the yahoo login 
>> problem.
>>
>> Additionally, we will release an alpha refresh for those of you who 
>> are testing that in preparation for our 1.0 release.
>>
>> Through all of this, please realize that we do this as volunteers, 
>> out of the goodness of our hearts.  Criticism and complaining on the 
>> mailing lists is quite a slap in the face.  After all, your praise is 
>> the only payment we receive.
>>
>> Alan
>> ------
>> Alan Humpherys
>> Fire Development Team
>> http://fire.sf.net
>>


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