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The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.20, a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. Key in this
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release is the ability to automatically reconnect if the connection to the server has been interrupted.
Other changes in Coccinella 0.96.20 include:
Verify server certicate (551811)
Speed improvements (552466)
Run Coccinella on 64 bit systems (380289)
Better detection of file names (603187)
Fix error when trying to remove the last profile (260661)
Chat state notifications trigger contact actions (270689)
Russion translation of "Close message and main window separatelly" (540176)
Exception when trying to edit contact actions on a offline group (555643)
Added additional tips (152723)
Public servers dropdown list is fixed (555902)
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about 3 years
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The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.18, a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. Changes
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in Coccinella 0.96.18 include:
Dragging and dropping of contacts works now with all styles (507360).
Enhanced management of contacts which are members of multiple groups (507360).
In IRC, all participants are shown in the member list (432076).
Fix exception trying to enter IRC chatroom with +r mode (434196).
Fix exception using nickname completion in IRC chatrooms (516436).
Fix exception opening the business card editor (497409).
Fix exception opening the item editor in the whiteboard (540445).
Fix exception trying to reload broken images in whiteboard (544183).
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The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.16, a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. After recent
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birthdays in the XMPP community, we are proud to highlight that Coccinella turns 10 years old. For those interested, an historic overview is available.
Changes in Coccinella 0.96.16 include:
Support for XEP-0202 Entity Time enabled (441223).
Fixed exception on Mac OS X regarding sound device selection (427951).
Login settings are now saved (180132).
Wrong password behaviour fixed (147392).
Fixed exception when some plugins were disabled (456982).
Removed usage of obsolete clock option -gmt (454856).
Enter password dialog: no focus (454527).
When a transport died on the server, a wrong Edit Contact dialog was shown (451037).
Edit business card dialog can be opened multiple times (179936).
Login to google-talk with wrong username/password leads to segfault on OpenBSD (460499).
Business card window, error retrieving client infos (441293).
Error opening business card dialog when someone has geoloc info enabled (437700).
Automatic login fails (427809)
Support for XEP-0145: Annotations (140336).
Fixed crash due to tkpath library under Mac OS X 10.6.
Show Tip of the day at startup (145627).
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The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.14, a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. Changes
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in Coccinella 0.96.14 include:
/clean and /retain commands
release of new icon themes: Nuvola, Tango, Black, Kids
option to select sound device
fixed whiteboard file transfer
fixed annoying bug when typing long texts in chat dialog
fixed external IP detection
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about 4 years
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The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.12, a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. This third
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synchronized release is dedicated to Mats Bengtsson.
Changes in Coccinella 0.96.12 include:
Switch to gettext to make it easier for you to translate Coccinella in your language
All character sets issues in the binary distributions should be fixed. This will be especially welcomed if you speak languages like Russian or Chinese.
Improved transport integration
New Simplified Chinese and Portuguese translations
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about 4 years
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A complete developer tutorial to add support for Facebook IM, Mail.ru IM, MySpace IM and Sametime to your instant messaging project: First, commit Mail.ru IM icons. Second, commit Facebook icons. Then, commit MySpace IM and
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Sametime icons.
Finally, add some gateway category mappings.
Coccinella 0.96.12 will be ready for upcoming support for Facebook IM, MySpace IM and Sametime in the third-party Kraken XMPP Gateway.
Please contribute to the Kraken server gateway to improve the instant messaging experience with all your Facebook, MySpace and Sametime friends (and other chat system) using *any* open standard instant messaging program!
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about 4 years
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This evening, our current hoster did a great job by fixing the Coccinella website in about 30 minutes. It came out there were a few MySQL errors caused by Drupal's cache...only 200GB of errors! :-D Luckily, Florian is a nice hoster; our previous
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cheap hosting service provider would surely had suspended our account.
Speaking of cheap hosting, we still didn't received - after multiple requests - our invoice that had to be send in August 2008...Florian, please remind this "issue"! ;-) [Less]
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over 4 years
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Mats Bengtsson, the founder of Coccinella, passed away on November 29, 2008. He was born in 1959 and had a very successful career in academics and specifically in his field of interest, theoretical physics. Early in school he distinguished himself
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particularly in mathematics and he even produced his own math books in primary school when his teachers were not able to help him further on. He graduated at Lund university as an engineer, continued as a research student in theoretical physics and presented his doctoral thesis, ”Parton showers in a phenomenological context”, at the age of 28 years. He spent a post-doc period in Germany (Aachen), but previously he had also been at the Cern laboratory.
After his exams he started to work at ABB for a short period of time, before he ended up in Linköping where he received a research position at FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency. In Linköping he and his partner Mari stayed for quite a few years. During his entire life Mats had several hobbies such as gliding and model railroading. Unfortunately, Mats was struck by a chronic condition during the last 15 years of his life, but was able to work hard in periods on his special project, the Coccinella program which is an interactive communicative Internet program. He initiated and developed this computer program and released it as open-source on the Net so others may contribute to the program’s development and refinement over time. Hopefully Coccinella will remain and be continuously upgraded in Mats’ spirit and visions.
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By Mari Lundberg, Mats girlfriend
Coccinella 0.96.12 *will* be released on March 18, 2009. However, this release will not introduce many changes because Mats was the driving force of the Coccinella project. Therefore, I will blog over the next few months about interesting projects and challenging features that Mats had on his TODO list. Hopefully, this will interest you to build further on the shoulders of a giant! [Less]
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over 4 years
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Credit: TiggerT, License: by-nc-nd O'Reilly interviewed Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel developer who founded the Linux Driver Project. The interview explains how the Linux Driver Project can support the weirdest Japanese USB devices
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, how Linux is being developed, why binary only kernel drivers are illegal, how a time-based release schedule benefits Linux, and how Greg thinks about synchronized releases. Although all these topics are interesting to read, I will restrict this blog post to the latter 2 of them.
Time-Based Release Schedule
Since 2.6, the Linux kernel has a time-based release schedule. As you can see, Greg really favours this development model (we also do):
It is working very well.
It is very predictable.
It increased our rate of developers, our number of companies participating, our number of developers participating.
There is better feedback.
We've got more people testing it out that way. People will only test when a release comes out.
The traditional "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" software engineering model is obsolete: the world changes, so we have to change in regards to that. Linus's famous quote is Linux is not intelligent design; it's evolution. We evolved the kernel.
Contributors plan their contributions: it's all volunteer-based. If you say "Here is when the timeframe is going to be" everybody knows that if they want to get something done they have to get it in by then. Otherwise, they'll work on it at their own pace.
Synchronized Releases
Even though we both agree that time-based release schedules are a good thing, Greg has a different idea about synchronized releases. Maybe I can change his mind by debunking some myths about synchronized releases:
I think Mark is asking other people to do his job for him. He has a very small number of developers; he has a very limited development staff. [..] If you look, wanting to rely on other people to stabilize that integration is a great thing. If other people can do your work for you that's a wonderful thing to get them to do; I don't think that's going to happen.
Myth 1: Mark invented synchronized releases to free ride on the community.
Wrong -- Mark did not invented this. The Eclipse Foundation did. Not because they wanted to free ride on the community, but because they wanted to spur adoption by providing more value for their users.
Myth 2: Mark wants this because he has not enough employees.
Wrong -- One of the issues of the open source community is that the same integration work needs to be done over and over again by different people in different projects. Synchronized releasing has the potential to increase the overall productivity of the whole community by reducing duplicate integration work. Hence, more can be done with the same number of people.
Myth 3: Nobody will ever synchronize their releases.
Wrong -- Gnome and Ubuntu are doing so, Eclipse is synchronizing (you really should read their goal!), we are doing synchronized releases at Coccinella, Midgard CMS is synchronized, and possibly others.
Trying to line up Red Hat and Novell and Ubuntu--just business model and internal business concern with each other is not fair to ask of a way of companies that compete against each other.
We have a very weird environment at Linux in the fact that there's these different companies that at the management level and the marketing level are competing. They're competitive companies. Red Hat and Novell go after the same customers, the same install base, and they're very, very competitive yet they have the exact same engineering staff. Red Hat is Novell's engineering staff and Novell is Red Hat's engineering staff. You can't do stuff to make that upset. It's a very, very weird model but just trying to align the business model and their timeframe of what they wish to do and trying to tell the Open Source community that you're going to line up with these businesses at the moment in time is a very unfair thing to ask.
Myth 4: Synchronized releases involve competitors which is not possible as they can't collaborate.
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over 4 years
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sander
The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.10, a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. This second
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synchronized release introduces major visual improvements including the Oxygen icon theme and the new control panel with slots in the main window.
Other highlights of Coccinella 0.96.10 include:
Search people slot
Improved integration of User Mood and User Activity (more services add support for this)
Faster application startup
Editing and creating profiles in the login window
Experimental support for chat styles using Tkhtml3, a web rendering engine which probably beats the whole WebKit browser family in speed and file size (PS: this sexy project written in C needs a new developer!)
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