Re: [Gaim-cabal] Welcome, Evan

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:19:30AM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 19:15 -0400, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> > On Apr 28, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Sean Egan wrote:
> >   - Would it be appropriate for a student to take what's done so far  
> > on the MSNp11 stuff, finish it, integrate it into Gaim, and perhaps  
> > integrate further improvements (such as modern MSN file transfer)?   
> > The latter would probably be the 'primary work' of the project  
> > proposal, since the student is supposed to do something new, I believe.
> 
> If I understood things correctly, it was decided last year that MSN file
> transfer wasn't enough to justify a spot, since it's already implemented
> in other clients and just needs to be written for Gaim. However, adding
> in MSNP11 is an interesting twist...
> 
> I had thought about suggesting MSNP11, but the problem I had with that
> idea is that MSN 8.0 is in beta. It uses MSNP13 or some such. If we were
> going to have an SoC student work on something, it should probably be
> that.
> 
> I suppose they could sign up for the beta if Microsoft is still taking
> users there. Then they could implement MSNP13 for Gaim and if time
> permitted, MSN P2P file transfer as well.
> 
> Perhaps we'd end up with everything #ifdef'ed to the PROTOCOL_VERSION or
> something like that. Then, when MSNP13 becomes available for everyone,
> we could just switch the #define.
> 
> Having offline messaging, status messages, and P2P file transfer in MSN
> would definitely be nice.
> 
> Richard

If Richard and/or nosnilmot are willing to mentor this one, I think
it would make a good SoC project.  It would provide some much needed
man power to get that work completed, and for once not to be playing
catchup to Microsoft's newest version.

luke