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Hello all,

(Apologies to those getting the letter multiple times)

This periodic letter contains information on the state of
the SIP 
Communicator project and its development. It includes a
summary of the 
progress that has been made since the last edition of the
letter and a 
short range plan of what are the next items on our agenda.

Let's start with an overview of what we've been doing lately
(in no 
particular order):

The message history is now completely finalized and (should
be) stable. 
Yana and Damian have worked hard on this and I think we now
really have 
slick history.

We have officially frozen the sip-communicator-1-0-draft
java.net 
project and its cvs repository. This project was beginning
to cause 
quite some confusion and the pre1.0 code in the
sip-communicator CVS 
repository was driving users away from the current version.
The move was 
  to a great extent eased by CollabNet that agreed to copy
the 1-0-draft 
repository over that of the sip-communicator completely free
of charge.

The SIP Communicator now also supports the Jabber protocol
(courtesy of 
Damian). So those of us using, jabber.org, google talk or
any other 
jabber service have one less reason to run a second IM
client side by 
side with the sip-communicator. We still need to give some
testing to 
this module and work some more on it (you'll notice for
example that it 
uses that icq animated icon for a short period during the
login) but the 
better part of work is behind us. Anyway, I was personally
very eager to 
have Jabber support so I am really glad it's there  ).

SIP support has also moved forward. We now have exchange of
SIP messages 
(INVITE, TRYING, RINGING, OK) during the automated testing.
We should 
move faster here during the next week or two.

We have also started nightly builds of a windows and a Linux
installer 
(note that the Linux installer is only a self extracting
executable and 
not a distro specific package ... these should come later).
The nightly 
builds are stored on download.java.net, and more precisely:

http://download.java.net/communications/sip-com
municator/nightly/

Last but not least, we have passed over the mark of 100 000
lines of 
code! 
It may sound meaningless to many but since we don't yet have
a 
release and are not counting downloads or page hits, this is
one of the 
primary indexes we use to measure our progress. Here's a
more visual 
representation of this progress:

http://dev.s
ip-communicator.org/loc.html

(I am not getting tired of sending out this one  )

So, what's next?

I may have mentioned that. We're planning the release of the
1.0-alpha1 
version (for details check the project roadmap: 
http://www.sip-communicator.org/index.php/Developme
nt/Roadmap) quite 
soon (a matter of weeks really).

We're therefore now concentrating on the SIP protocol
provider, the GUI 
for all telephony features and the Call history.

We'll also be trying to put up nightly builds for .deb and
.rpm packages.


I guess this pretty much sums it up.

Thanks for reading!

Emil

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