I’ve been busy busy busy, and I hadn’t even realized that it’s been a whole month since I’ve posted.  Oops.  I guess for most of the things that I write, Twitter/identi.ca really are where I’m at.  Oh, well.

I have missed the August 1st goal for releasing AllTray 0.7.4dev, mostly because I am trying to implement the last feature on the list of requirements for its release—the “intercept the close button” feature that everyone seems to think is a killer feature.  Unfortuantely, I have not yet found a clean solution that I am able to implement.  I have found a solution that looks like it will work, but the problem is that I cannot seem to figure out just how to make it work.  That is, I understand it in theory, but implementing it in practice is something I cannot seem to wrap my mind around.  This is unfortunate, and most likely means that 0.8.0 will be late (and thus not yet in Ubuntu), but it will be supported with the featureset it was published to have.  As a friend of mine told me, it is better to release late than to release an incomplete product.

I may go ahead and release what is currently trunk as 0.7.4dev, and bump the “close button” feature to a new milestone, 0.7.5dev, which I was not previously planning on having at all.  My original intention was to release 0.7.4dev, so that users could test it and provide feedback, then relatively quickly, advance to 0.8.0beta, 0.8.0rc, and then 0.8.0 itself.  However, because 0.8.0′s release will mean that I will not subsequently make any efforts to fix issues in the old AllTray series (as it will be the first version of AllTray since the old maintainer’s 0.70 release to be recommended for wide use and packaging in distributions), I am not going to release it in an incomplete state—so, late it will be.

In other news, the server that died some time back has had its replacement ordered.  The trausch.us domain will experience some downtime when things are migrated to the new server, which will hopefully be minimal—the IPv4 address block that we have is growing, as well, as we are in need of more IP addresses (and the cost of those is going to be subsidized, thankfully, as I honestly cannot afford them, even though I need them).  With any luck—and sufficient time—this means that some of the projects that I wanted to do that have not yet been possible, will be possible now.  Yay!