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Originally Posted by dnastase View Post
Hi epage,

I am really interested in the TheOneRing. I keep installing, hope that it will work, uninstall, then install again couple of days later.
Do you have a time frame in mind when you think this will be in beta status so we'll be able to use it ?
From an email I sent out this morning to another Dialcentral user anxiously awaiting The One RIng

I am glad you currently enjoy Dialcentral. I plan to offer the same
level of support for the The One Ring including receiving of user
input and ease of debugging once I get things into a workable shape on
the Maemo platform.

As you noted, right now it is pre-alpha software. As such I am not
sure how worthwhile it is to offer support when I expect it to be
broken and keep breaking. I am honestly surprised to hear people
install software from extras-devel without any kind of endorsement of
the author or prior history with that application and then to be
surprised when it is broken. Due to the number of inquiries into
this, I plan to add to the package description a warning about it
eating peoples kittens. Hopefully that helps or else it shows very
few people like kittens. Sad.
Beyond that, currently the only time frame I have is "when its done". I was not able to make my goal of End of 2009 which due to confusion on the telepathy spec, surprising changes in the python-telepathy package, and differences between Empathy and RTComm. I've been able to get every feature to work on Empathy on an Ubuntu 9.04 machine (yeah I need to upgrade but it has similar packaging as Maemo 4.1 which i want to also support). In parallel to getting basic features working on Maemo I am working to add the polish I would expect to deliver in Beta software. I still consider it Pre-Alpha though due to major implementation holes on Maemo 5.
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