[Adium-devl] It's that time again, folks!

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Feb 16, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

>   - voice & video - this is just not going to go away, though
>     I would like to see the effort contributed to libgaim and
>     libjingle, since in many ways that would help everyone.
My understanding is that Sean is working hard on this and that it  
will be targeted after Gaim 2.0.0 is out.  While the Adium UI side of  
voice/video definitely is going to be a big project on its own, I'm  
afraid that asking a student to design it and interface with it  
without any clear target underlying API might be problematic...  
though at the same time could be a great exercise in contract-based  
coding.

Sean, is there a reasonable way that an Adium student could get  
involved in voice-video?  On the other hand, would it be reasonable  
for a student to tackle that from the Gaim side, or is your work not  
at that point (either too far or not far enough)?

>   - possibly an API interface to allow Java plugins. We dropped
>     joscar because of the deprecated CocoaJava bridge, though I
>     wonder whether it would provide some benefit to find a
>     suitable successor?
How would this be a significant project?  Andreas already wrote  
AIJavaController (removed from trunk but still present in  
subversion's history and the joscar and smack branches).  There's  
nothing to stop a plugin at present from utilizing it directly or its  
technology... though I would strongly discourage that, for the same  
reasons that we made the difficult decision to drop joscar and smack  
in the first place.

>   - those projects that never quite got finished last year
Smack - basically finished, Java problems
Voice/video (with Smack) - see above and above
"Super EMD" - perhaps.  The actual code produced last year provides  
some basic access to external programs... such that this would be  
even less a major project, really, unless expanded in some novel way.
Tearing off the contact list (groups or contacts) - sure

Proposals from last year which weren't accepted but that I think are  
cool:
Bonjour - on the page now, definitely a fan
Skype - still a common request... though as with the QQ application  
we got, this is probably better suited as a Gaim project unless  
there's a good reason for it to be under our umbrella

A note from last year's apps -- most of them clustered around the  
ideas we suggested. Maybe we should have more general / vague ideas  
and encourage applicants to develop them in their applications.   
There are good things we can think of, but getting new folks involved  
and really leveraging the possible new ideas and directions would be  
even better.

-Evan

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