Psi development seems to have been pretty stagnant lately so here’s an update on what’s been happening in the world.

Psi-0.10

The story of 0.10 isn’t a happy one, unfortunately; it’s been dragging on for a very long time due to circumstances outside my control. I think the code’s ready. Most, if not all, of the translations are now in. Once we’ve got a new logo / icons ready, we’ll ship. Fortunately, while 0.10 has been stalled, we’ve branched the codebase and have been working on other things:

The Qt4 port

Assorted people have been working pretty hard on getting Psi ported over to the new Qt4 library; it’s turned out that this wasn’t as trivial as some people might have hoped but we’re progressing well. Psi’s now usable (in a basic state) on Qt4 and once we’ve got 0.10 out of the door the codebase should be ready for some very early public consumption. We’re taking the opportunity while porting to get some code rewriting done, so things will hopefully feel a little smoother as well.

Wishlists

Fran suggested to me that it’d be useful for contributers to have a list of things I’d like implemented that’s a bit nicer to scour than the bug tracking system, so I created a feature wishlist. The idea is that I’ll list here small, or self-contained units of code which’re useful to Psi, but not on the immediate roadplan for the core development team. I hope to add to this list and then maintain it so that anyone with a hankering to get some coding time in has some ideas, together with suggestions for implementation. If anyone has ideas that they think could be added to this list, please let me know and I’ll have a look at them.

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