Plugins to port were chosen on the basis of usage frequency and popularity on Plugins without actual source code have been left out. On the source code of Miranda core was uploaded to a separate repository and later over a hundred plugins were added. However, during the negotiations between the various parties it was decided to found a new project led by George. In April 2012, George Hazan decided to leave Miranda IM project despite many obvious directions for Miranda development. When Boris reverted a fix for his error because the commentary to commit contained the term borkred – which had been invented by one of the coders to denote Miranda parts broken by Boris – that was the last straw for George. There was a conflict between George Hazan (ghazan) and Boris Krasnovskiy (borkra), the most active Miranda developers at the time.This was especially true for implementation of Unicode support which hadn't been finished in Miranda IM. There were lots of compatibility issues between different versions of Miranda core or even between versions of some plugins. ![]() As a result some plugins contained unusable, inefficient or buggy code, and no one could fix it. Thus, code monitoring by the team was limited, if not to say impossible. Plugins' source code was scattered about dozens of repositories, many plugins had no current source code available.It usually took over a year for changes in the core to be taken up by the plugin developers and to be finally brought to end users.The existing (up to the present) model of Miranda development proved to be totally unsustainable for the following reasons:.In spring 2012 the development of Miranda IM reached a deadlock. ![]()
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