Hello Jeremy,

Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 9:18:45 AM, you wrote:

>> As a matter of fact, since June 16th, I work for IntelliJ
>> Labs ( http://www.intellij.com ). The work I'm doing there
>> (basically, UI development in C#) is very much similar to the
>> work I was doing on Syndirella. Moreover, the product we're
>> working on will include RSS reading functionality, and most
>> likely I'll be the one responsible for designing and implementing it.

JD> That explains the silence as you muddled through the decisions of what
JD> to do and how to handle it. Congratulations! :)

Frankly speaking, mudding through decisions didn't take much time,
and the silence had much more mundane explanations, like not having
time or desire to do anything related to Syndirella. :-)

JD> And...if companies are investing in RSS as a format, then it seems
JD> likely those companies will extert a stabilizing force on the format.
JD> Something that's desperately needed, I figure.

I can't say too much now, but it looks like RSS will not be a major
functionality part of our product, and I don't expect us to get
involved in any community efforts related to RSS.

>> Another problem is that Syndirella uses the UtilityLibrary
>> control library, which is not open-source. I do have the
>> source code to it, but I don't have the permission to
>> redistribute it. This library has been a source of many
>> problems to me, so it would be best to create an open-source
>> replacement for that.

JD> Noted... I haven't yet observed how much Syndir relies on the library,
JD> but I'll cast about for an existing similar project, and failing that,
JD> work on a replacement. (Bold words)

Well, basically the toolbar, feed list and message list are controls
from UtilityLibrary, with additional hacking and modifications by me.

JD> I do have one favor to ask... Would it be possible for you to export the
JD> issues you currently have in RoundUp into a reasonable format, so that
JD> we could import into a tracker we could maintain?

http://home.yole.ru/files/roundup_export.zip
This holds a bunch of CSV files with data from the Roundup tables.
I'm not sure if you can call it "reasonable", but it's the only thing
Roundup can export automatically, and it can be figured out and parsed
with some effort.

Actually, you can continue using the Roundup tracker on my machine,
but I won't really recommend that - its uptime history is less than
stellar, and Roundup is far from the perfect bug-tracking package.
While its internal architecture may be great, the usability of the
front-end and (especially) administration tools is still lacking.

JD> And if you're just sitting w/ nothing to do, indications of the subset
JD> of issues that you know are reproducible and still exist would be great.

Just look at the exception reports I dumped into
syndirella-exceptions. Many of them are long fixed, but there are
quite a few that happen in the recent builds.

And please, don't hurry to implement all the cool new functionality
you wanted to have. :-) The first priority of the new team should be
getting out a new stable release, preferably not using UtilityLibrary.

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Best regards,
Dmitry mailto:yole@...