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

[John Cradock]

Peter,

Thanks for the screenshot. I'm glad you used an OS X screenshot, since
months ago I had written commenting on how the Sage icon looks in the
OS X toolbar -- looks much better in 1.4. I can't wait to check out
the new version.

John Cradock


On 2/17/06, Peter Andrews <petea at jhu.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> > 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
>
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