Here I am, back from some days without the internet :) Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>> Will Gajim apply on its own or will Gajim-related projects be mentored >>> under the umbrella of the XMPP Standards Foundation again this year? >>> (Assuming the XSF is accepted... :)
Don't we need a real assiciation structure to apply as an organisation? So indeed this year I was thinking about being in XMPP's umbrella. Do you think Gajim should apply on its own Peter? Maybe for next year? > I think it would be great to have an implementation of SXE whiteboarding > in Psi and an implementation in Gajim! +1, if all clients implement the same protocol, that would be much better ! > Unfortunately, we have competing proposals for whiteboarding over XMPP. > The XMPP Council needs to decide how to proceed. The "least-worst" > solution may be for the XSF to publish both as informational specs and > "let the market decide" about the best approach. If both Psi and Gajim > support the SXE approach (I think they are the two most popular > Jabber-only clients) then that would be part of the market > decision-making process. ;-) At the begining I thought Mateusz could help you to write the XEP, but in fact it seems it is already written. XSF needs to take a decision, and in that, he can't help. > >>> > * test framework: some sort of automated tests to test features in >>> > Gajim to avoid regressions >>> >>> Important, but kind of boring. But maybe you get excited about it. :) I >>> think it's important to work on something that excites you, not just >>> something that would be good for the community. Yes it's hard to balance >>> those things sometimes... >> I thought of including automatic GUI testing stuff in it so it would >> be more fun. But yes - writing tests might be boring :] Indeed, automatic GUI testingwould be nice too: we can't test all features of gajim everyday. >> >>> > * plugin system >>> >>> Plugins are always cool. :) >> I'll probably write sth longer later, but in short this would include >> help with reorganizing how events work (there's a ticket for this >> already), and creating some hooks in gui (main menu, roster, chat >> window, context menu). IBM's Sametime has a pretty good documentation >> on it as they have generalized Sametime in version 7.5 and build a >> pretty nice framework. I've developed plugin for it during my >> internship at IBM so I have some experience in plugins system in >> (commercial) IM client. That's something we plan in a near futur (after 0.12 release) to be able ton configure the way events are handled more smartly (buddy pounces) >>> > * BOSH thing >>> >>> IMHO BOSH will become more widespread (we hope to launch it soon at >>> jabber.org once we install ejabberd 2.0.0 on a new machine) so support >>> for it in Gajim would be great. >> You mean XMPP over BOSH? > > Yes. But perhaps Gajim already includes support for this somewhere in SVN? No we don't have anything about that yet. > >>> Other projects I think are interesting (I am not sure if Gajim already >>> supports these, my apologies if it does -- I'm a Psi user but would be >>> happy to test Gajim on the Mac once that port is stable): >>> - support for link-local messaging (XEP-0174) We already have that. >>> - support for PEP (XEP-0163) We have that in SVN. Next release will have that. >>> - support for message archiving (XEP-0136) -- this may be one of the >>> community's priorities for 2008 >> And it might be a really great project to implement for GSoC. I'm >> personally interested in making this work in Gajim ASAP as I use >> multiple OSes. We don't have that, and that would be a cool project too. > BTW, all reports are that Asterix is a great mentor so I hope you can > find a project that will be accepted! Thank's Peter :) -- Yann _______________________________________________ Gajim-devel mailing list Gajim-devel@gajim.org https://lists.gajim.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/gajim-devel