New Blood

[Trevor Stone-2]

Greetings everyone.  I notice this mailing list hasn't had any  
traffic in the last several months and there haven't been many  
releases this year (I couldn't find a packaged 2.0 Alpha download).  
I hope Fire hasn't stagnated (burned out?).  Maybe I can help get  
some kindling going.

I've been using Fire for the last few years and I think you've all  
done a great job; I love how well it uses Cocoa features.  For the  
last few years I've spent my days writing enterprise software in  
Java.  I've decided to expand my programming skills by working on  
open source software and Fire looks like a good candidate, in part  
because there's a bug or two I'd like to see fixed ;-)

What's the state of the project?  What needs to be done?

I built both 1.5.6 and 2.0 from source (Application Only because the  
full build had an issue or two).  The latter looks pretty but I can't  
get it to connect to any services.  Do I need to do something  
special, or should I just try to get the full build working?

Depending on the status and momentum of 2.0, I'd like to help fix  
some bugs in 1.5 as a way of producing something desirable and  
finding out how things work (though the readme in 2.0 indicates a  
large refactor).  Is there a unit testing framework?

My highest priority 1.5.6 bug is the fact that Jabber accounts (I've  
tried Google and LiveJournal) don't connect on Intel machines (though  
the forums indicate PPC works fine).  I stepped through the  
connection process in the debugger and found that the socket open  
callback had errno 61: ECONNREFUSED.  Any pointers on how to debug  
that further?

At your service,

=-=-=-= Trevor Stone -=- [Flwyd] -=- <tstone @ trevorstone.org> =-=-=-=
Computer science, eclectic philosophy, games, wits, esoterics, odd hats
http://flwyd.livejournal.com/          Thou roynish shard-borne mammet!
Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

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