Re: CVS access or Project Progress

--- David Riebenbauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> My main motivivation to do this is seeing the
> situation current
> situation that there are more and more patches for
> centericq floating
> around with no release in sight. So that is fixing
> bugs, reviewing and
> applying patches and doing a release from time to
> time. 

I agree. This is a great application, it would be a
shame to leave it dying.

> Making centericq more usable in UTF-8 environments
> is another thing I
> want to do. More and more Linux distributions are
> using UTF-8 as
> default encoding. So supporting it should really be
> done. And I hope
> that in the process of doing that problems with
> other encodings can be
> fixed too. It really should work with all of them

That's what I want to do. I studied these issues and I
think I know what has to be done, even if it is a lot
of work...

> When it comes to protocols my main interest is
> Jabber. Unfortunately
> this is the only protocol I have detailed knowledge
> of. And the only
> other protocol I use is ICQ.

I use ICQ and MSN, but know the details of none of
them. It won't be hard to find someone interested in
AIM and probably IRC, for the others, we may also
temporarily drop support for them, especially if there
are unresolved issues (like for LiveJournal)

> When it comes to Jabber I want to make it more
> standards-compliant.
> I think that that will involve throwing out
> libjabber which doesn't
> seem to exist any more out of centericq and
> replacing it with
> something else. I think libgloox would be a good
> candidate.

Not only the Jabber library should be changed, but
also the msn and probably ICQ libraries need to be
updated with something better. We may use Gaim's
libraries for this...

> I also think that centericq could use some ui
> improvements. Though I
> am not talking of radical changes here. The user
> interface is quite
> good and is one of the reasons why I like centericq.
> But I think small
> improvements can be made.

I agree, but first UTF8 support is required...

> I would like centericq to be more configurable. This
> is obviously rather low
> priority compared to some of the other things, but
> still something I
> want to do some time.
> This should include more possibilities to adjust
> keybindings and maybe
> a more flexible configuration file format.

Yes I agree, it should be configurable in every way
possible...

> I haven't yet decided which name I will use for that
> project. And as
> far as I know Konst hasn't decided yet if he wants
> let me use the name
> centericq.

What's in a name? It is not hand, nor foot...
Whatever the name, what matters is that it works ;)

> As a version control system I want to use git. I
> already have imported
> the current cvs repository into git and also have my
> current changes
> in there.
> 
> The reasons for git are that it has a good
> repository format, allows
> to work with external patches very easily and of
> course it's
> distributed nature.

I'll need to read some resources on git, the first
time I approached it I did not grasp it fully...

> 
> Unfortunately I don't have the money to rent my own
> server/vserver for
> that at the moment.

I do have my own shared hosting, I could make a
subdomain if it's necessary... Yet I think that we'd
better use sourceforge or something like this, easier
to remember

Stéphane


		
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