The HOMEPAGE in the ebuild doesn't exist anymore. Also, the readme in the GitHub repository in the SRC_URI was updated in 2018 to say it would stop working in August, but I just tested it and it still works and eight more commits were added after that date with meaningless commit messages, although not anymore since March 2020, so I don't really know what's the status of this project.
In June 2018 the maintainer added a note to the readme saying "Corebird will stop working mid-August" followed by a broken link. Seems to be dead.
Yes, I saw that as you can see in my original comment, but as I also said there, I tested the software (with my own Twitter account) and it still works, so should we remove a software that works?
Sorry for repeating what you wrote in the original comment, I must've gotten too carried away looking through all the strange commit messages. It looks like Debian and Ubuntu dropped the package in 2018 for not working, interesting that it works now. Fedora and Alpine also still have it packaged. I think the best course is still to drop Corebird and instead package Cawbird (https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird). It's a fork that is actively maintained. Will get it done before dropping Corebird :)
(In reply to Matthew Smith from comment #3) > I think the best course is still to drop Corebird and instead package > Cawbird (https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird). It's a fork that is actively > maintained. > > Will get it done before dropping Corebird :) I don't know if you already saw Cawbird is in ::guru, but it doesn't build (bug 803896). It seems to be an issue finding Vala, but unfortunately I don't know enough about building Vala packages to troubleshoot it.
Sorry, forgot to close this after last-riting corebird. net-im/corebird is no longer in ::gentoo.
