Re: CVS access or Project Progress

Hi David, Hi Tiger and Hi Everybody else

David Riebenbauer wrote:
> 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 would be really really great :) It bothers me, that the only app on 
my server, which is not UTF-8 compliant is centericq. Otherwise I would 
have switched to UTF-8 a long time ago.
Another thing that is a problem: with screen, ssh and centericq, the 
available UTF-8 version seems not to work correctly. I've tried Debian's 
centericq-utf8.

> 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.
That's the next thing. The actual Debian version doesn't connect to 
amessage.de anymore. Maybe there is already a patch for that, but I 
didn't have time to investigate that.

> 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.
That sounds nice. As well as the "little" GUI improvments. Could you 
explain what you've thougth of?

> 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.
Are you in contact with him? What does he think about that plans? Maybe 
he would open centericq's CVS or move it to another location?

> 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.
OK, something new to learn, but it's always good to learn new things ;)

> I still have to write up a changelog.
Let us know when you've finished. As you picked the most patches out of 
Debian, are you interessted in directly publishing Debian packages? That 
would be really great ;)

> I am still looking for a location where I can use for a wiki and a bug
> tracker. Maybe Sourceforge is a good location for that. But I am open
> for other suggestions.
http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Open_Source/Hosting/

> Of course I welcome everyones contributions.
OK, now something about myself :)
I would like to help if I can. I am a Java developer, so I think I'm 
able to READ the code, but writing could be some problem, as I'm not 
very familiar to release allocated memory and use pointers ;)

What I could do would be, writing documentation and testing (mainly 
UTF-8 support, Debian-packaging, usage within screen, ...). And maybe I 
could help with support.

I would also like to point out another message in this thread. It was 
about using lib-gaim as base. This should be considered and thought of 
very thoroughly. It has some notable advantages: Very well maintained, 
fast and active development of the libraries and so on. Just think about 
it.

> Please let me know what you think about all this
That was just my two cent ;)


Greetings
-Sascha-
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