[Gaim-devel] Mail.ru Agent protocol

[Atamurad H. <ata...@gm...>]

Hi,

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1445623&group_id=235&atid=350235
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/2783
> mail.ru protocol
> A popular IM service in Russia - the Mail.ru Agent has recently released
> the specs for their protocol. The specs in russian can be found here:
> http://agent.mail.ru/protocol.html. If a translation is needed - feel
> completely free to contact me. Based on the specs a miranda plugin has
> been developped, but still no gaim support seems to exist. It would be
> fantastic if gaim would be able to connect to that net too, as it's the
> only feature I miss in it for now.

Recently I switched to Ubuntu and lack of mail.ru agent client in GNU/Linux
systems was only the reason which kept me from completely avoiding Windows.
I came across with above feature requests when I was looking for one.

So I decided to write one myself. Finally I have working code now.
My current Gaim protocol plugin can login to server, retrieve contact
list and send/receive messages which meets my basic IM-ing
requirements but it is far from public release,
there are memory leaks, tons of bugs and unimplemented features etc.

I'd like to implement in near future.
 - Offline messages
 - Add/remove/edit buddies and groups
 - Search white pages
 - File transfer
 - Buddy pictures
 - Rich text formatting

And now my question is
 - Will you guys accept it to main libgaim tree if I complete it?
Or will it be distributed as third-party plugin?
 - I'm student and can I do it as part of the Google Summer of Code program?

Regards,
Atamyrat

p.s. Mail.ru is also widely used in ex-soviet Russian-speaking countries.