Peter previously posted that we’re now accepting applications for the Google Summer of Code 2007. While the Adium Summer Of Code page and Google’s own SoC page have everything you need to know, I thought a summary here on the blog would be appropriate.

Google Summer of Code is open to students at all levels age 18 years and older. Students whose proposals are accepted by the Adium developers will work full-time on their open source project with the guidance of an Adium developer (“mentor”). This is a great opportunity to get involved in an exciting open source project… and to earn a paycheck in the process: Successful students will earn $4500 USD from Google for their efforts as well as gaining a fantastic addition to their resumés and making valuable contacts (both personal and professional).

Applications are due March 26 by 5:00 PM Pacific time (12:00 AM UTC March 27, 2007) — time is running out! Between March 26 and April 11 we (the mentors) can request more information and you’ll be able to update your application.. so be sure it’s submitted via the Summer of Code Web Application by the deadline.

I would like to welcome one of our newest patchers, Paul Roger Livesey. Paul came to us due to the recent posts requesting help.

He has created patches for both #5753 and #6287.

Just another useful resource, on the wiki we have a Map -O- Adium which you may find useful.

I have to say, I was not expecting the kind of response we got to Chris’s request for help.

Thank you all for your enthusiasm and offers of help 🙂

Hey folks,

So it’s been a long road to 1.0. We’re still recovering. Some things however have always been the same for the project. One of those is the following

We need help

We need help in a couple of forms which I will explain below. Basically we’re at a point where we are getting a lot of new users, so we need some additional resources in a couple of areas.

Help with users

For starters, let’s take a look at the “Needs Feedback” milestone on Trac. There are, at the moment of this writing, 242 open tickets in this milestone. It should be much lower. Our general policy is to leave a ticket open for 2 weeks once placed into this milestone, and then to close the ticket as “WorksForMe” until we get feedback on it.

In general we try to get back to users as soon as we can, but it’s hard to do on a project like Adium. Ticket triaging is down to myself and Eric. The first week that Eric started helping with tickets, he processed about a thousand untouched tickets, which is why he leads the TicketTaskForce. If you would like to help with the TicketTaskForce, please contact him.

Developers

We are in dire need of more developers. We have some really great developers already, but they can’t do it all alone. This is the reason we haven’t done things like Voice and Video, because we just don’t have enough hands to tackle something like that.

If you would like to help with development, please contact either David or myself

Summer of Code

Last, but not least. We’ve been invited to Summer of Code again. If you are interested in that, please see our summer of code page on trac.

Over the last few days, Mats Mattsson has been submitting patches to close out some memory leaks. Last count is I believe seven. Thanks and welcome to the project!

Adium 1.0.1 brings a hefty set of bugfixes for such a tiny version number increase. A common AIM file transfer problem (in which one side would immediately see the transfer as canceled) has been fixed. We’ve squashed a double handful of common crashes and bugs which will never again plague our beloved users. 7 distinct memory leaks in 5 different situations were closed, further lightening Adium’s footprint. Last but not least, my girlfriend Jade turned 25 today. See the version history for all 25 improvements, then download away!

As always, thanks to our site and support host Network Redux and our download host CacheFly. Want to help out with development? See Contributing to Adium for information on bug hunting, coding, and donating. 🙂

So far we’ve had, roughly, 645 thousand downloads of Adium 1.0. I’d call that a success. Thanks to everyone for supporting us over the years.

Sounds in Adium 1.0 automatically route to your Alerts device, as specified by the Sounds System Preferences. If you’re not getting sound but should be, check the volume and setting there 🙂

Those of you who use reddit (like Colin and I do, among others) have probably noticed this already, but reddit’s logo since yesterday has Adiumy in it. Presumably, this is to celebrate the release of Adium 1.0. Thanks!

This isn’t the first time that the reddit artist, Alexis Ohanian, has done something cool and Adium-related: He made a reddit Dock icon set previously.

UPDATE: Ohanian has his own blog post about it.