World: r3wp

Sunanda, what I think is unfair (or more importantly untrue), is 
that we "disregard" anything...


Comparing us to BC, is simple rude.  We are the opposite.  There 
is an acerbic nature and spirit here, and I'm saddened by it.

The moment Tom posted me the lost list, I assigned someone in my 
company to help out and augment Peter's list to be complete with 
information eve from the past.

Is everyone upkeeping the top altme wishes checklist?   I just did 
a few little edits/changes... but I wonder if anyone is even aware 
they are there... does Reichart and gang look at this list?

There are still a lot of entries in the altme wishes list that have 
no description......the conclusion must be that they are not really 
wanted by anybody here as nobody can be bothered to write a couple 
of sentences to explain them.

The AltMEPeeves (or bug) list now identifies the top ten list .


If you can think of any just cause or impediment to the list, type 
now or forever hold your peace.

No dissent from me

Seems reasonable.

Must say, that the links should be really fixed. It's the most confusing 
thing in Altme for me.

hum, somehow the "runs on solaris", should be removed from top 10... 
its simply not a possibility.

A wish is a wish and my guess is that the "runs on solaris" is actually 
very similiar to the wish for a "Core-based Server".

but in the top 10?  and its also impossible... so why  leave it there 
since this is really now a top 9?

At the moment it is at number 22 in the list of wishes ...so it doesn't 
reach my top ten.

At the moment, there are 13 peeves (bugs) and 73 wishes......it seems 
the list of peeves is just about agreed ...I've pushed "display of 
html links is a mess" into the top 5 Oldes....

So we can soon present them to Reichart.

I really believe that just fixing those ten will noticeably improve 
AltME as a product.

I think that it will take us a little longer to achieve the same 
degere of consensus on the wishes.

why is "run on solaris" impossible?

can solaris be encapped?

As the full wish says "Run on Sloaris no X11" - it may be that Maxim 
felt that would make it more than a little tricky to run the AltME 
clinet.

i had the detective encapped on solaris...

async dns does not work but everything else was working fine.

but has the 1.3.2 solaris encap ever been done?

no, but it could be done if it was really needed.

guess it depends how deeply your links to carl go  ;-)

we're talking about altme... :)

and... building just the server should be easy enough to do.

hum... but I had understood that the client was the request... I 
guess a core only server would be better still  :-)

As the request said without X.11, I think it is safe to assume only 
the server.

even for the client: well, since the detective worked, i assume altme 
could too; altme does not require draw wich could be a problem to 
compile on solaris, and as long as it does not require async dns 
i think there should be no problems.

but the final question is... but do we want Carl to put time on this 
or R3  ;-)?

i would be surprised if it took more than one hour... however, i 
would consider this a low priority thing, so probably after r3 :)

So..............it the final bug and feature list pretty much in 
agreement?

Yes

Once you fix those, we'll come up with the next 10 ...

You mean "once the team"

Try not to make this personal.

you = plural

yall

Yeah, I wasn't being personal, just personnel.

The final top ten bugs are:

Scrolling under Windows
Gnome Cut & Paste (possibly should be X.11 cut & paste)
Clicking http links under Linux has no effect
The edit buffer is lost on disconnection
Display of html links is a mess

Use of graphic as well as red colour to highlight groups with unread 
messages
Message highlighting is lost on disconnection
Search shold show messages in the local archive
Message not "tied" to a topic
Better formatting ot exported HTML conversations.

..and if you could stretch to 12...

Everything red on a new installation
Crash on recycle 

(though I thought the last has already been fixed).

and that one needs to be fixed again, just to be sure.

I don't think it is just Gnome Cut & Paste .. it is intermittent 
under windows as well.

Yes, I concur.

hmm... I just installed a security update to XP and AltME will sometimes 
disappear mysteriously, as if killed.

that said, I have 7 more updates that refuse to install. perhaps 
some of these updates will cause instability if not all of them are 
installed simultaneously.

End of Life

well, I just discovered that off-line browsing is now a failure in 
every case I have tried  I think that is a #1 bug candidate.

a reboot seemed to help here for now