[Sage] How come no update in nearly 6 months?

[Peter Andrews]

Mattias, thanks for the feedback.  We're lucky to have such an  
interested community and I'd like to be a little more transparent  
when it comes to development.  I'm going to answer your questions  
briefly here, and then follow up with a more detailed general status  
report.

There are two reasons Sage 1.4 is taking a little longer than  
planned.  The first is that we've been making some fundamental  
changes to the way that Sage parses and renders feeds so that we can  
deliver a better user experience down the road.  These are important  
changes, and we want to take the time to do it right.  Also affecting  
our release schedule have been demanding jobs and the logistics of  
relocation.  Both Erik and I have recently moved to the Bay Area and  
have found ourselves with much less free time than we were previously  
used to.

The good news is that Sage 1.4 is nearly ready and will provide  
important improvements that have long been requested by the  
community.  Stay tuned :)

peter

On Feb 16, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Mattias Hällkvist wrote:

> No, or only minor changes. Not to say that it's in urgent need of  
> improvement. But there is defenatly room for improvement/ 
> enhancements. And since it one of the most popular extension and  
> probably the most popular RSS aggregating extension it deserves  
> some attention I think.
>
> And I'm not going to only come with complaints. I'm also going to  
> suggest what I think should be done for improvement:
>
> 1. Optional "cleaner" less space wasing interface, where you only  
> have the Feed list and the Feed item list visible with a thin  
> border between them. And porhaps a small icons toolbar ontop with  
> the "update" & "options" buttons.

I'm including a screenshot of a development build in which you can  
see some of the UI streamlining that we've been doing.
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> 2. Have a dedicated Sage tab(with the Sage leaf as favicon?) which  
> will become active whenever you want to view a feed item.

http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6447

>
> 3. Remember state in Sage when closing/opening the sidebar.

http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8043