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If you’re reading this there’re only two possible explanations:

1. You know what “Cayapa” means and want to be involved in it.
2. You Want to know what “Cayapa” means and what does it have to do with the development of Turpial 2.0.

So, here it goes, I’ll try to be as clear as possible so that our venezuelan lingo can come across to anyone who’s never set foot in this beautyful land filled with beautiful women (Sorry guys, they’re all mine)

Cayapa: noun. & verb. [Kah-ya'll-pah] (Meh, close enough) In lame terms: The action of beating the crap out of one S.o.B. This is not done by one subject to another but is a group efford against the one until he’s pretty much left for dead. (Very invinting isn’t).

i.e: We were cayaping that MoFo for using my external HD to save his reggaeton “music” *spits on the carcas*

Now, Who wants to be a part of the beating???

How does it apply to Turpial development? you ask, fairly simple, We are the Cayapators [Terminator style] and the requirements for a good Alpha 2.0 is the MoFo whom defiled your HD: It needs to be set straight.

To better understand this term, think of it as a Bug Squash Party in Techno Language. And before you ask, NO! this word will not change and we will cayapa you if you, so much as, suggest we change it.

Thank you.

This next sunday, february 12th, Turpial development team we’ll be discusing everything related to Turpia 2.0 and its Alpha v. if you’d like to be a part of this discussion head over to:

IRC

Server: Freenode (irc.freenode.net)
Channel: #turpial

at 09.00 am VE / 10.30 am AR

(VE UTC -4:30 / AR UTC -3:00)

And join the beating…

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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Today, our friend Nomadium informs that Turpial package is already in Debian Sid repository too.

Same as Fedora, if everything goes fine, the package will pushed to the testing repository soon so you can install it with your favorite package tool.

Thanks again to all the people that make this possible.

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Richzendy informs that Turpial package is already in Fedora 15/16 testing repository. If you use Fedora and you can’t wait for use turpial 1.6.6:

Update it in Fedora 16 with:

# su -c ‘yum update –enablerepo=updates-testing turpial-1.6.6-1.fc16′

Update it in Fedora 15 with:

# su -c ‘yum update –enablerepo=updates-testing turpial-1.6.6-1.fc15′

After test the package please go to the package url, log in and leave karma (feedback) to contribute.

In a few days, if no one has reported any errors or bad karma, the package will definitely pushed to the repository and updates will be available to all as usual.

More information in Richzendy’s blog (ES) and in the mailing list thread

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Finally, Turpial 1.6.6 is HERE with new features and more, but if you’re in Development Branch and check this blog often you realize that said branch is going to be a mess for a little while (Explaination HERE), so you might want to stay on the safe side and install the Stable Bird.

But…

“How can I do such a wonderful and complicated thing?” you’ll ask (if you are a Linux ignorant such as myself).

Well, our friend LordValor made us a huge favor setting an Easy Tutorial (it’s so simple even I can do it, no joke).

Althou it’s in spanish, if you follow the Terminal instructions starting with:

$ cd turpial/

you’re going to be just fine and have Turpial 1.6.6 running in under a minute (like my dates when the bill hits the restaurant table).

Just go to his Post: Turpial 1.6.6 is now Stable and do your thing.

Thanks, LordValor, pay his blog a visit it’s full of interesting Stuff and S#!7 … If you know spanish, that is.

"If you know spanish..."

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If you are a current user of development branch of Turpial, we encourage you to NOT perform any update at least for a couple of weeks.

Because of the release of the new stable version, this branch will be under heavy development and we will be doing a lot of changes that will broke up the application. However, if after this warning you still want to test current development, do it at your own risk.

To keep your Turpial working, please move to master branch and stay there until further advice.

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After months of work, finally we bring to you the new stable version of Turpial. Among the changes we can highlight:

• Support for imgur and goo.gl services
• New option to expand URLs in context menu
• Improves in graphic interface
• Autologin
• Filter by words
• Support for APIv2 of bit.ly
• Fixed DM issues
• Fixed some bugs with notification system
• Fixed other minor issues

You can find out the source code for this version in our files repository and soon will be updated on repositories for Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and ArchLinux.

Installation instructions can be found in the download page

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