[Daniel]

TabServe 2.0 is just about ready for some beta testing, I keep putting this off, so here I am at 2:40AM making sure it gets done!

Over the past few months, I have slowly been working on a total re-write of TabServe, including a backend 'core' which will also be used by another MSN Messenger related project in the future, and will allow much easier expansion of TabServe. To be exact, I started playing around, trying different methods, etc. sometime in March, things are well behind schedule. Not much has changed since its original release in January 2004. This release hopes to fix all that!

Most of the functionality is complete, all that is required now is some serious testing, a clean-up of the interface and design, translations, and of course, some fresh new tabs (more of a side project).


This post is intended as a call for testers to try out this new version, you will be required to use it as normal, try and break it, exploit it, anything like that. You will also be welcome to suggest improvements, new ideas, things like that. Even if you have one small idea you would like to see, that isn't in the current version, you should apply. I will be automatically accepting most, if not all who apply. Your forum account will be given extra permissions to access this private forum where you can communicate with me and other testers, and to post bugs. I would like anyone who gets in to actively post, I will be posting scenarios, asking for feedback on certain things, etc. where anyone can comment.


Regarding translations, I would like two people per language, so you can agree on the phrases. I realise some languages vary a bit by locale, so this is something else you might need to also agree on. Hopefully there is somewhat of a standard or acceptable in all areas.

The current languages I'm interested in are:

Chinese
Dutch
English (duh)
French
German
Japanese
Spanish

I'm sure there will be no problem with Spanish, French or Dutch; there seem to be many users here who know it as their mother tongue.


Enough rambling, if you want to test or translate, just reply here stating so. If you want to translate, post the language you want and what country you use it in... and add anything I might need to know regarding it.

Feel free to spread the word a bit, the more people the better.


Current testers:

psyko
Dody
alexp2_ad
david_ES
JIOB
mario
bidibooum
The Husher
doggie
ipab
Le Marquis
LauraPM
imtiger
XxRebelNoobxX
stuartbennett
Gublerian

Current translators:

Spanish - david_ES, JIOB, LauraPM
French - mario, ipab
Chinese - imtiger

Possible translations:

Arabic - Dody, mario
Danish - Dody

[psyko]

I'll setup a test spot on another machine and try it. I can translate proper English (American) and Spanish as well.

[Dody]

I can test it too, and translate to Danish and arabic

[alexp2_ad]

I would love to test it... can't translate anything though.

[david_ES]

I can test and translate in Spanish (Spain)

This post has been edited by david_ES: 20 July 2005 - 08:28 PM

[JIOB]

I can help you to test and translate into spanish from spain and latin america

[Daniel]

Main post updated to reflect current testers and translators.

I would prefer translators to translate to their mother tongue, they know best right? :D

[pacman]

i can test a bit too and i like to do the german translation. next week im in holidays, so I cant do this right now.
Greez Gublerian

This post has been edited by Gublerian: 21 July 2005 - 02:07 PM

[psyko]

I can translate to mother tongue Spanish, no doubt. :)

[Daniel]

I want to get things rolling on Monday morning, so you will have access to the forum around then. Feel free to invite other people, I would like at least two more people to help test.

[mario]

I can test it and translate it to french and arabic

This post has been edited by mario: 23 July 2005 - 03:31 PM

[bidibooum]

I can test this if yor want

[.zero]

ill do it if the previous versions have never caused problems for users before
.:EDIT:. im useless at translating though, and i mainly speak american english, even tho im from england..

This post has been edited by The Husher: 24 July 2005 - 03:45 PM

[Doggie]

the dawg is always here to test ;)

[Daniel]

You guys can now access the forum, only one topic at the moment... just play around with the new system and report anything weird.

If anyone else wants to join, you can still reply here.

[ipab]

although im not known much around here, im an admin at MessengerDiscovery and I would love to test/translate tabserve 2.0

Language that i can translate into is French.

[Daniel]

Added

And the designer too.

[the andyman]

does this version just replace the tabs or remove things like the bottom conversation ad banner as well like previous versions??

This post has been edited by the andyman: 26 July 2005 - 01:53 PM

[Daniel]

There are other customizations available, at the moment the conversation ad banner is removed by default. Eventually I'll be adding an option to turn it on or off and be able to change the ad source.

[XxRebelSeanxX]

I guess I will apply, if you want a full blown application I'll cook one up for ya. You know me pretty well now, so yeah I'll do it :D.