Posted 03/19/2012 by satanas
As we planned, the first alpha release of Turpial 2.0 is here and it rocks! It formal version number is 1.7.6 and it brings a lot of fresh new features. Among all the cool features we can highlight:
- Improved URL detection
- Embedded profiles and images visualization
- Advanced options in preferences dialog
- Improved look & feel (using Webkit)
- Broadcasting messages
- Dialog to send DMs
- Undo feature support (ctlr + z)
- Show profile image at real size when you click it from a tweet/dent
- Branded new dialog for username autocomplete
- Handle so much columns as the user wants
- Ubuntu integration
- Support for public timeline as column
- Undo retweet
- Implemented block and report as spam features
- Evolved mute/unmute feature to filtering (based on expressions)
We did a brief resume the past month of this features and how they look/work in this post. There are more feature but we want to let you some homework.
However, as you might know, this is a working-in-progress version so you must expect issues, breaks or even the lack of functionalities. This version is NOT intented for production purposes and we DON’T want bug reports about it. Bug reports will be welcome on the beta phase.
You can check the TO-DO list to be aware of the non-finished features and here is a list of the known issues so far:
- Notifications preferences still not working
- Proxy support not implemented yet
- After creating an account the updatebox doesn’t show the new account (you need to restart)
- Column autoresize not implemented
- Main window sometimes flicker when resizing
- More resource consumption (around 50MB of RAM more than Turpial 1.6.9)
- Every time you start the application you need to load your friends
- Account dialog needs a extreme makeover
- There is no way to follow users except through their profiles
As usual, you can find the source package in our files repository and the source code in the github repository. Package maintainers will be working to make available this release on official repositories of most popular GNU/Linux distros.
Thanks to all people that support the project and please, give us your feedback, you can help to the development process just commenting out your impressions.
Enjoy!
Posted 03/19/2012 by satanas
Due the lack of some security certificates in the previous source package we had to update the pristine tarball of the recent released version of libturpial (0.8.5).
The name of the package remains the same (because there are no changes on libturpial source code) and is available from our files repository through the same URL but the MD5 checksum has changed. We highly recommend to check the new checksum in order to verify that you are using the right version.
We apologize for any inconvenient.
Posted 03/17/2012 by satanas
From branch 2.x, all Turpial backend relies on a single library that handles multiple microblogging protocols, multiple accounts, configurations and a lot of features of each protocol. The library we are talking about is libturpial and today, as part of the alpha release of Turpial, we proudly present the first stable release in it version 0.8.5.
Development of this library started on March 2011 and now is ready to be used, not just for Turpial 2.x else for general purpose too. Main features of this library include:
- OAuth support for Twitter
- Handle accounts and columns
- Fetch timeline, replies, directs, sents, lists and favorites
- Fetch public timeline
- Fetch friends
- Fetch conversations
- Update, destroy, repeat statuses
- Handle direct messages
- Mark/unmark favorites
- Handle relationship (follow, unfollow, block, unblock, report as spam)
- Perform searchs
- Fetch trends
- Handle services for short URLs
- Handle highlighted reources as entities
- Handle configuration stuffs
- Fetch followers and friends
- Support for undo retweet
- Implemented filtering by words/expressions
- Open media module to handle embedded resources (images, videos, etc)
- Improved security using HTTPS on Identi.ca and working with SSL certificates for all services
Source code can be downloaded in our files repository and the package should be available soon in most popular GNU/Linux distributions. More info in the official announcement of the Turpial mailing list.
I want to extend my thanks to all people that have been working hard day after day to make this release possible, great job guys! Let’s keep working.
And for all the people that would like to contribute or help the project but are not developers remember, click the advertising or donate is a great way to contribute too. Thanks!
Posted 03/05/2012 by satanas
Last February 12th, as result of the Cayapa Turpial, we decided to set the release date for the first alpha version of Turpial 2.0 at March 4th. However, we couldn’t reach this deadline due to some issues with webkit and performance that forced us to change priorities.
Now, we are fixing some minor issues and polishing a couple of features required for this snapshot. Preferences dialog and a better authentication method are done, so main work this week will be focused on the embedded images features and the column autoresize and the next week will be dedicated to tests and UI improvements.
The new date for the alpha release has been set to March 18th.
Posted 03/04/2012 by satanas
Our platform was down for several days due some problems after the scheduled upgrade, however all our services are back again and in better shape.
We took this break to improve a lot stuff. Now we have a faster and solid web server (Nginx), a better integration betweet the web server and our Bug Tracking System (using Phusion Passenger) and a brand new files repository: http://files.turpial.org.ve/.
The last change implies that all previous links for source code files won’t work anymore, so please take all the considerations needed to avoid inconvenients.
Posted 02/12/2012 by satanas
Today, as planned, we meet at #turpial IRC channel in Freenode to do our “Cayapa Turpial”. Andrea Stagi, Carlos Guerrero, José Torres and me (Wil Alvarez) were the participants in this meeting.
First, we define which would be the minimum features to complete for the next alpha release. In that conversation we talk about topics as user preferences, improving authentication methods, embedded images and methods for user searching. Besides we were talking about other pending tasks as eat some italian food work in the support for multiple languages in our platform, improve our broadcast strategies and work on multiplatform implementations of Turpial.
The most important results can be resumed as follow:
- Translate to english all open issues in the Bug Track System
- Elaborate a post to talk about multiplatform advances
- Resume the work with Qt implementation
- Wiki page to write down all conventions used (protocol) to work with Webkit implementations in each framework (GTK, Qt, etc)
- Build a donation page and start a campaign
- Post weekly articles to spread the word and inform about the development progress
- Features to be included in the next alpha release (besides all the completed features: tweets, retweets, favs, directs, follow, unfollow, block, report as spam, conversations, user profiles, URL shortening, multiaccounts, etc)
- Show images in a embedded window
- Preferences dialog
- Column autoresize
- Improves for the user authentication method
Also we define that our deadline for the alpha release will be this March 4, 2012. So, if everything goes fine in 3 weeks you should be testing this amazing new version of Turpial.
As conclusion we can say that it was a fast and productive meeting.
As usual, I want to extend our thanks to all the people who support the project and welcome to José Torres to our team, we will keep working hard to bring an excellent and competitive application to you.
For full details about the meeting you can check the IRC conversation log.
Posted 02/04/2012 by satanas
With the last stable release (v1.6.9), Turpial has been accepted as official package in the community Arch Linux repository. Now if you want to install the stable release in Arch Linux just execute:
# pacman -S turpial
Thanks to our friends Miguel Ángel Useche who was the maintainer of AUR package and Angel Velásquez who uploaded Turpial to community repository and is the current maintainer of the official package.
Posted 02/04/2012 by satanas
Our friend Andrea Stagi has added support for the github.com shorting URL service, git.io, completing for a total of 27 supported services.
This services are availables just in the development version for the moment but we are planning to release a public alpha version in the next weeks so everybody can start test the new features.
Fore detailed information check the diff of this changes
Posted 02/04/2012 by satanas
Today has been released a new maintenance version of Turpial that fixes some issues with the installation of languages and that implements the integration with the Ubuntu Messaging Menu (Unity). This version is the lastest stable (1.6.9), you can download sources from our files repository, from the stable branch in the github repository or wait until it be available in official repositories of Debian, Ubuntu and Arch Linux.
Thanks to all collaborators.
Posted 01/09/2012 by satanas
After several weeks of hard work the new documentation for the installation process of the current development version of Turpial has been updated. Needless to say that this version is really experimental and is under heavy development, so you must expect daily changes, incomplete features and possibles bugs/issues.
This version is NOT RECOMMENDED under any circumstance for production, just for testing purpose.
Please, DON’T OPEN issue reports about this version until the first alpha/beta is released.
If you want to contribute please leave your feedback in comments or better, make a donation to keep the bird growing 
Enjoy!
2 comments
