Awhile ago I wrote about what we were targeting for Pidgin 3.0.0 Alpha 1.

At the time this felt like a good step forward as we didn't really have a road map or anything and this was precisely that. Except it wasn't, it turned out to be more of a nebulous list with little to no direction. Unfortunately it took awhile for me to realize this, but a solution was pretty easy to find.

So, instead of just going through that list, we're going to focus on getting the new from scratch IRCv3 protocol plugin to the point where I can start using it with Pidgin 3 as a daily driver.

Not only does this give us some much needed direction it will also finally get me using Pidgin 3 as a daily driver. On top of that, it'll create a good cycle as I will be able to find and fix bugs much faster as they'll be directly affecting me.

So realistically not much is going to change from what we were doing before, but the 3.0.0 Alpha 1 issues will be prioritized to get IRCv3 working using all of the new APIs that we've been developing.

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