On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Stephan Erb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am happy to see that you are interested in hacking on Gajim during > GSoC, Mateusz. > > A few days ago Asterix asked whether I have any ideas for possible GSoC > projects. After a short discussion we came up with the following list: > > 1) Plugin system > 2) testframework > 3) BOSH > > In my opinion those are more valuable to Gajim than the whiteboard you > mentioned. Of course whiteboarding is a cool feature but let me explain > why I would prefer the plug-in system for now.
I fully agree. > Working on architecture is a priority after 0.12. We have to kill some > complexity but also make it flexible enough to allow plugins. > That you already have experiences with plug-in system is great, as we > don't. > > I believe it will be much easier to add new features once the > architecture is reworked. Furthermore testing could be simplified > because me might be able to test different parts independently of each > other. I've talked to Asterix today, he said he had talked to you, he proposed plugins system as most wanted and I agreed. So plug-in system will be the main project I'll propose in application for GSoC. As a second-chance project (if XSF for some reason would reject this one) I thought of 'message archiving' because (as stpeter said) XSF wants to make it more popular in 2008. What do you think about that? > Of course you can start with a whiteboarding plugin if you have the time > and the passion :-) > Maybe there has been some progress on the XSF front by then. I'd like to implement it in Gajim for sure some day, but first things first. I think Gajim should benefit from GSoC2008 and plug-ins system seems to be the right way. > Great to have this discussion here. I see lots of possible great new > features, but still have to keep an eye on the maintainability of Gajim. Yeap. The faster Gajim gets plug-in system the better. :) We agreed with Asterix that at the end of GSoC2008 apart from plug-in system itself there should be two (or maybe one) simple (example) plug-ins to demonstrate the way how to create own. Asterix have one in mind but he had to leave so we'll probably talk in the evening. I thought of Gajim integration with Google maps (where people in roster currently are) or Google calendar (add events from texts in conversation, get notification of upcoming events - although I don't know whether there isn't some kind of a bot made by Google) or maybe a simple SMS plug-in. Do you have any ideas? I think these plug-ins would be a really nice (and easy to check) target to achieve during GSoC. -- Regards -- Mateusz Biliński _______________________________________________ Gajim-devel mailing list Gajim-devel@gajim.org https://lists.gajim.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/gajim-devel
