[Adium-devl] FW: OpenIM freedesktop project

[Eric Richie]

I know that not everyone follows the pidgin mailing list so I thought I'd
pass this along.  Sounds like it might be a worthwhile project to sign on
with for any of us working on protocol specific features (as we are with
v/v) or anyone that otherwise feels like helping "the greater good".

-Eric


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From: Youness Alaoui <kakaroto at kakaroto.homelinux.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:30:49 -0500
To: <devel at pidgin.im>
Cc: <ali.sabil at gmail.com>, <johann.prieur at gmail.com>
Subject: OpenIM freedesktop project

Hi All,

I'm KaKaRoTo, developer and project manager of the aMSN project (the best IM
client ever, I know.. :p)
I'm writing to you guys in order to suggest something to you. We're trying
(the pymsn developer and myself) to get a new project created in
freedesktop.org. 
The idea is simple, a single place in which we would gather all the effort
on reverse engineering and on documenting the known IM protocols.
As many of you probably know, the documentation for each protocol is
scattered around many websites, and if we want to implement a client or
library 
for a closed prototocol (like MSN) we would need a lot of googling and
reading many different documentation, each giving us a little bit of info on
the protocol.. and eventually, we'll end up doing a lot of reverse
engineering ourselves to complete the lack of documentation.
This is mainly what happened with aMSN, in order to implement the protocol
features, we had to do most of the reverse engineering ourselves, and
there's nothing to document what we found (although I've helped enhance some
of the msnpiki website, not everything has been put in there).

So the OpenIM initiative will probably benefit us all by sharing a common
place for all of our knowledge on those closed (and open) IM protocols.
I'm willing to write most of the MSN protocol information. aMSN uses the
MSNP12 version of the protocol, but I'm working with the pymsn developers
on reverse engineering and documenting the MSNP15 version.

So here's the thing, freedesktop admin requires us to gather as many people
as possible in order to get the project created, so I hope many of you
will be willing to help.
If any of you is interested in this project, please write a comment in the
bugzilla page for this project creation request in order to convince the
freedesktop.org admins to create the project.
If you want to learn more about the idea, you can read the info already
posted in the bug report, or email me for any additional info.

Bugzilla link : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12237

Thanks for reading,
KaKaRoTo

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