Mercurial > pidgin

--- a/NEWS	Mon Apr 30 04:39:13 2007 +0000
+++ b/NEWS	Mon Apr 30 04:43:46 2007 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul

-2.0.0beta7 (4/19/2007):
+2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
 	Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
 	starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
 	logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
@@ -23,12 +23,34 @@
 	I was.  Scared, that is).  The bottom line is that we're out in the
 	open again, and fully plan to stay that way.  We're also opening up
 	the mail archives from the secretive past few months.  You can scan
-	though them if you want, or I can summarize.  "Are the lawyers done
+	through them if you want, or I can summarize.  "Are the lawyers done
 	yet?  No.  Now?  No.  How about now?  No."  All lawyer jokes aside,
 	I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
 	all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got.  Anyways, thanks
 	for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!

+	Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended.  Finally the name
+	change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
+	cycle.  Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
+	but that's another story all together.
+
+	Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
+	excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
+	out of the legal mess.  We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
+	branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
+	the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
+	please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
+	find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
+	documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
+	information.  Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
+	(in a good way)!  I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
+	developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
+	everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
+	the improvements that go along with it.  I'd like to extend a
+	special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
+	and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
+	wants to deal with.
+
 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2006):
 	Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
 	the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI