Things have been fairly hectic in the Psi community lately.
Mblsha has written some auto-resizing code for a couple of widgets, the roster and text inputs. What does this mean in real terms? You can now have your roster grow and shrink based upon the number of contacts online. This is nice. What’s nicer is the text input, which now (in a manner similar to ichat) grows and shrinks based upon the volume of the content you’re writing.
I’ve been writing tab code, so now (slowly catching up with nearly every other application on the planet) you can have your chats in a tabset, and switch between them appropriately. This pretty much works now, there’s a couple of minor bugs that need to be fixed, and then I need to address that fact that, basically, it’s incredibly ugly.
Remko’s been submitting patches: an internal rearrangement of status code, which paves the way for a better status change system, and a menubar for the roster, if you’re that way inclined.
Nolan tells me he’s rapidly approaching a submittable state with his MUC work, which is also great.

Psi-0.10 (faces of conversation) is obviously going to be a fairly major release in just about all respects. This inevitably means that the release cycle is going to drag on and on, which is a Bad Thing(tm). As a remedy for this, I’m going to make some interim snapshots. These are not going to be stable, and the aim is not for them to be rolled out in production environments, but I know that many people like to be running the latest and greatest versions. These development snapshot releases will at least give some sort of assurance that the devs think the features which are implemented are reasonably stable, although they won’t be feature-complete, obviously, and the usual disclaimers will apply as with all non-release builds; you break it, you get to keep all the pieces.

On a more exciting note, we eventually chose a slogan for Psi:
Psi: Kicks for communication

Bring on the Jabber client monopoly

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