[delta-chat] what was happening December 2018 / releases upcoming

Hi all, in case you are wondering about what's happening in delta chat development land ... find below the "monthly" report for Dec 2018 we write for the otf-active list, the list of projects funded by the OpenTechnologyfund, among them Briar, Guardianproject and several other interesting ones. Also: stable DeltaChat releases are coming for Android and Desktop real soon now (tm) ... btw, for later next week help with translations and dev-release testing would help -- it's also ongoing with the excellent bug reports from Adbenitez and others, see here for good example: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android-ii/issues/203 happy new beginnings everyone, looking forward to another interesting year of DeltaChat happenings :) holger ----- Forwarded message from holger krekel <holger(a)merlinux.eu> ----- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 17:22:53 +0100 From: holger krekel <holger(a)merlinux.eu> To: otf-active(a)opentechfund.org Subject: [otf-active] DeltaChat in December 2018 Hi otf-active, tons of things happened December 2018 with Delta.Chat (the e-mail based chat messenger), here are highlights: - published the needfinding report based on 16 interviews with journalists, activists, trainers in Ukraine. It forms the basis, along with user-testing result from Oct/Nov 2018 in Kyiv, for upcoming DeltaChat developments. The report is useful to skim/read also for other secure messenging projects. https://delta.chat/assets/blog/dcneedfindingreport.pdf - several APK preview releases of Delta/Android-dev, our renewed and refactored code base for the Delta/Android app. It closes some 20 known and hard to fix issues with the old code base and is currently receiving early user-testing and we are fixing bugs and UX glitches, aiming for a new F-Droid release in Jan2019 https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android-ii/releases/ - several Debian package preview releases of Delta/Desktop, our new Desktop app which is continously evolving and used successfully by a bunch of people on an everyday basis. We are still tweaking our Desktop version to be more familiar/similar to the Android version workflows. https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/releases/ - the 0.97 versions of Desktop and Android releases also work with a new combined transifex translation repository, requiring re-translating all strings which now are used across Desktop and Android apps. https://www.transifex.com/delta-chat/delta-chat-app/dashboard/ - Due to high community demand, some DeltaChat developers met for a couple of days and revamped the "shared account" logic which allows users to use a single e-mail account for both regular and chat e-mail. The new refined logic was first prototyped and tested from Python and then implemented with Deltachat-core, the C-library used by all DeltaChat apps. https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core/releases/ - At the yearly CCC conference (35C3 in Leipzig) we organized the !decentral assembly where several DeltaChat and DAT sessions took places with friends from IPFS, qutebrowser and other projects hanging out as well. We also did a UX session with 20 people attending and could get everyone setup with Android, Desktop or iOS (iOS saw heavy development during 35c3 which needs to be incorporated into github master still). https://signup.c3assemblies.de/assembly/c51983c8-b560-4d2b-95a1-f07a98c8e322 For any questions, mail me or find us on #deltachat freenode. wishing everyone a good beginning of 2019, holger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "otf-active" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to otf-active+unsubscribe(a)opentech.fund. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/opentech.fund/d/optout. ----- End forwarded message -----