Yann Leboulanger wrote:
> 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?
No, we'll continue to use the XSF for this, I think. The XSF
has the
organizational infrastructure to handle this, plus this way
I'm the only
one who has to deal wtih all the stupid admin stuff.
>> 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.
Correct. :|
>>>> > * 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.
True, I remember seeing Gajim users on link-local networks
at the devcon.
> >>> - support for PEP (XEP-0163)
>
> We have that in SVN. Next release will have that.
Cool. It should be deployed at jabber.org soon with ejabberd
2.0.
>>>> - 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.
Kevin Smith said that Psi will be working on that before
long.
>> 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
Peter
--
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https://stpeter.im/
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