Update on project status

okias commented 4 years ago

Hello guys,

it seems (as looking at developer activity on github) that Tootle project is not developed nor maintained anymore. Anyone interested to at least maintain it (until dev step up) or overtake development?

This application would be really interesting for Linux mobile phones and also it has potential to get integrated as official GNOME application.

davidak commented 4 years ago

The developer works on a refactored version. (see activity here https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle/commits/refactor)

If you care about the project, consider donating to the developer: https://liberapay.com/bleakgrey/donate

There is also an active fork that fixed some problems: https://github.com/cleac/tootle

okias commented 4 years ago

oh, that's great, thanks for information. Not sure why this branch hasn't showed in developer activity in github overview :)

EDIT: prepared ebuild with live version in ::ixit (for Gentoo), it's build from refactor branch and somehow work.

Small buglist:

just log entry: tootle_instance_account_get_stream_url: assertion 'self != NULL' failed
BUG: messages won't show: Request.vala:98: GET: https://floss.social/api/v1/timelines/direct?limit=25
resizing isn't working "real-time"
opening own profile: file com.github.bleakgrey.tootle@exe/src/Services/Cache.c: line 454: uncaught error: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3)
after some active use I get 429 and get rate-limited. Must investigate more, but would be cool if client detect 429 and report that nicely.

But generally I like it. Could work also nicely on phone (when some alpha/beta gets release, I'll package it for debian as DEB package).

FedericoCeratto commented 4 years ago

@okias Tootle is already in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/sid/tootle but I'll consider removing it in absence of new releases due to the many bugs.

bleakgrey commented 4 years ago

@okias Please split the list into separate issues if they still stand.

davidak commented 4 years ago

@bleakgrey Welcome back!

Do you plan a release soon?

Please consider collaborating with the community, like @cleac who maintains a fork to make the project usable again. https://github.com/cleac/olifant/issues/30 With the goal to make the best version of this.

bleakgrey commented 4 years ago

@davidak There are many WIP things and even more things that I haven't even started (re)writing. Refactoring a project like this turned out to have... intricacies (because Mastodon is developing really fast and I've made bad architectural decisions at the start of the development), but I'm trying my best to make the release happen ASAP :)

@cleac's Olifant does have several ideas that I like (he even proposed several pull requests), so I think they will be incorporated to "upstream" Tootle. I get excited about just thinking that Tootle has a fork now!

However, I don't think that I will be contributing new features to Olifant because I'm moving from eOS as a target distro. I've rewritten core widgets to use Glade and utilize more GNOME-centered look and feel. @cleac will have to either retrofit new features somehow or drop them altogether.

bleakgrey commented 4 years ago

I felt bad about dropping eOS, but since Olifant got released I'm actually relieved that someone decided to maintain the old eOS codebase. I can finally resume working on things that I want rather than things that I have to support.

I realize that this may be taxing on @cleac, so I'm happy to help him should he need any support.

bleakgrey / tootle

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