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

Chris design at fishbone2.com
Fri Feb 17 21:47:44 EST 2006


How do you get FF to look like that???

Peter Andrews 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.
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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
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