[pLog-svn] Get rid of encoding

[Oscar Renalias]

> and btw.. maybe you find a bug or two i could fix.. just assign them
> to me :) i cant take any, as i'm not sure what they all mean ..

There's unfortunately not much more to debug or fix now until people 
start finding problems during the testing/beta testing round.

But worry you not, I can foresee that there will be enough feedback and 
bugs by then so be patient.

And of course one thing you can always do is test as many features as 
you can find. Or even better, help us by defining new test cases to 
test all the features. We installed Testitool 
(http://devel.plogworld.net/testitool -- please create an account) some 
sort of tool for organizing functional tests (since you did QA support 
for a while, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about :-) The tool is 
quite crap but I couldn't find any other OSS tool to do that... I just 
wanted a simple tool to create test cases to test all the possible 
features in plog and organize them in test runs and so on and Testitool 
seemed to somehow fit the bill.

The idea is that before each new release, we go through all the 
possible test cases to do some regression testing (ideally, each 
reported bug should have its own test case to demonstrate that it works 
well once fixed) and then we go through the new test cases created 
specifically for this new release to ensure that new features also work 
as expected. Of course this is a huge task for one person and since I 
didn't receive much help, I dropped it... But it's something that I am 
really really interested in doing because it wouldn't be the first time 
that I've made releases with untested features (just because I forgot 
to test things!)

So one thing you/we can do is start adding test cases for all possible 
features. It'd also be a good way to get yourself familiar with all the 
different features that plog has since I am not sure how much you've 
used it as blogging tool...

Give testitool a look and tell me what you think.

And to all of us (me, you and Baochen), this is what we can expect for 
the next 2 months: testing and waiting for user feedback through betas, 
RCs and so on... Boring? Maybe :-) Necessary? You bet!

Oscar