Fire Development

Well, 2.0 is starting to mature… Soon it will be time for release.

The only big ticket item remaining is PersonItem. Basically, it is a stronger clustering method with Address Book sync. Some of the code already exists, and Alan and I are busy at work getting the rest done. Once this is complete, it will be time to go through a feature freeze, and do bug testing as well as localizations.

Some detail about how PersonItem will work (comments welcome):

• You can only have one person of a particular name. It should be noted that only the name after a certain character (maybe a colon) will be displayed, so “Work: Jack” will display as “Jack” but won’t conflict with a different person named “Jack”
• A person can exists in multiple groups, but a buddy within a person must exist within at least the groups for its person
• A buddy can belong to multiple persons
• A buddy within each group must exist within a person. This can be multiple persons, or the same.
• The user can choose which icon is displayed for the person, and the priority for which buddy is displayed as the primary buddy

I am sure there is more, but you get the idea…